Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to RobespierrePrinceton University Press, 22 sep 2015 - 888 pagina's "Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution's intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. Revolutionary Ideas demonstrates that the Revolution was really three different revolutions vying for supremacy--a conflict between constitutional monarchists such as Lafayette who advocated moderate Enlightenment ideas; democratic republicans allied to Tom Paine who fought for Radical Enlightenment ideas; and authoritarian populists, such as Robespierre, who violently rejected key Enlightenment ideas and should ultimately be seen as Counter-Enlightenment figures. The book tells how the fierce rivalry between these groups shaped the course of the Revolution, from the Declaration of Rights, through liberal monarchism and democratic republicanism, to the Terror and the Post-Thermidor reaction. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas--not their fulfillment."--book jacket. |
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Introduction | 6 |
Revolution of the Press 178890 | 30 |
From EstatesGeneral to National Assembly | 53 |
Summer and Autumn 1789 | 72 |
Democratizing the Revolution | 103 |
Deadlock November 1790July 1791 | 141 |
War with the Church 178892 | 180 |
The Feuillant Revolution | 204 |
Robespierres Putsch June 1793 | 420 |
Overturning the Revolutions Core Values | 450 |
DeChristianization 179394 | 479 |
The Terror September 1793March 1794 | 503 |
The Terrors Last Months MarchJuly 1794 | 545 |
Thermidor | 574 |
PostThermidor 179597 | 593 |
The Failed Revolution 179799 | 670 |
The General Revolution Begins 179192 | 231 |
The Revolutionary Summer of 1792 | 246 |
Republicans Divided | 278 |
The General Revolution from Valmy | 316 |
The Worlds First Democratic Constitution | 345 |
Securing the Revolution | 374 |
Black Emancipation | 396 |
The Revolution as the Outcome of the Radical Enlightenment | 695 |
Cast of Main Participants | 709 |
Notes | 733 |
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833 | |
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