| Uniform title | R evolution fran caise n'est pas un mythe. English |
| Series |
Reinventing critical theory
Reinventing critical theory. ^A1334527
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| Contents |
Introduction: the French Revolution is not a myth: Sartre, L evi-Strauss, Foucault, Lacan, and us -- Part I. The French Revolution as an object for Sartre : 1. How did the French Revolution become an object for Sartre? -- 2. Working with historical details against the fetishization of the real -- 3. No longer dissolving the real actors of the French Revolution -- 4. Restoring the role of the sacred -- 5. Apocalypse and fraternity-terror -- 6. The question of dialectical time, or the inanity of the notion of the rearguard -- Part II: Rebuking Sartre and his final humanist object: the French Revolution under scrutiny : 7. Three humanities in one: European, colonized, savage -- 8. Finishing a book, concluding a discussion -- 9. Michel Foucault and the French Revolution: a misunderstanding? -- 10. The French Revolution: between the archaeology of knowledge, discursive formations, and social formations -- 11. On the "Iranian Revolution": retrieving the missed object, with Foucault and despite Foucault -- 12. "The French Revolution as Matrix of totalitarianism": the enigma of a bizarre statement -- 13. Sade and the ethical fold of the French Revolution -- Conclusion: clearing some foggy patches. |
| Abstract |
It is time to reexamine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead, the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why. More so than historians, philosophers have played the leading role in the portrayal of this major event in French political history. The philosophical quarrels of the 1960s placed the French Revolution at the heart of their debates. The most well-documented among these is the conflict between Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude L evi-Strauss and, subsequently, Michel Foucault. So we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution? Ranci ere, Derrida, Balibar, Lefort, Robin, and Loraux can help answer this question, in an epistemological approach to history. These successive explorations allow us to move away from a myth of identity to rediscover a real revolution, capable of offering enlightenment and political utility and interrogating what democracy and emancipation mean for us today--back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781786616197 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781786616173 |
| ISBN | 1786616173 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
