Society Theory And The French Revolution

Author : Brian Singer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134918361X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society, Theory and the French Revolution written by Brian Singer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-09-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very different book about the French Revolution of 1789-94. The concern is less with a change in society than a change in the relation that a society establishes with itself. Here the focus is on society's presentation (and representation) considered not simply from the perspective of a few privileged intellectuals, but as a social and historical process inseparable from the institution of society's political dimension. Through a close reading of the revolutionary texts of the period, the author is able to trace behind the surface of events and conflict themes of a more abstract, fundamental character - themes relative to the 'discovery' of society, the construction of the nation-state, and what for the revolutionaries was the scandal of their separation. While retaining a fidelity to the eighteenth century, this book opens up new theoretical perspectives that illuminate the character of both a certain revolutionary heritage and a more general political modernity.

Author : Brian C. J. Singer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312739249
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society, Theory, and the French Revolution written by Brian C. J. Singer and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1986 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195389417
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern France written by Vanessa R. Schwartz and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761968313
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Social Theory written by Mike Gane and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accomplished book provides a peerless account of the French tradition. It provides an overview of French social theory; divides French social theory into three coherent cycles: positivist, anthropological and Marxist; and situates the discussions of individuals and schools in the relevant social and political contexts.

Author : Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931041
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution written by Lynn Hunt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412932092
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Social Theory written by Mike Gane and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-02-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No national tradition of social theory has been more seductive to Anglo-American readers than the French.There has been a long-standing fascination with French ideas and debates. This extraordinarily accomplished book, written by one of Britain′s leading commentators on social theory, provides a peerless account of the French tradition.The book: provides a systematic account of French social theory from the aftermath of the French Revolution (St Simon, Bazard and Comte) to the contemporary scene dominated by Kristeva, Deleuze, Bourdieu and Baudrillard; divides French social theory into three logically coherent cycles: 1800-80 (positivist); 1880-1940 (anthropological); 1940-2000 (Marxist); provides a detailed guide to the three phases of postwar French social theory - existential, structural and post-structural; and situates the discussions of individuals and schools in the relevant social and political contexts. The book is a masterpiece of erudition and scholarship but is written throughout in an engaging and informative style. It will be required reading for anyone interested in social theory and sociology.

Author : Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316453944
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States and Social Revolutions written by Theda Skocpol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the outcomes of such revolutions. It develops a rigorous, comparative historical analysis of three major cases: the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 1800s, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the 1960s. Believing that existing theories of revolution, both Marxist and non-Marxist, are inadequate to explain the actual historical patterns of revolutions, Skocpol urges us to adopt fresh perspectives. Above all, she maintains that states conceived as administrative and coercive organizations potentially autonomous from class controls and interests must be made central to explanations of revolutions.

Author : Paul Harold Beik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Revolution Seen from the Right written by Paul Harold Beik and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Regime and the Revolution written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophie Wahnich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661619X
Total Pages : 247 pages
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Download or read book The French Revolution in Theory written by Sophie Wahnich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time to re-examine 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, it is philosophers that 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 Lévi-Strauss and subsequently, Michel Foucault. Do we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution? Rancière, 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 and to rediscover a real Revolution, capable of offering Enlightenment and political utility and interrogating what democracy and emancipation mean for us today.