Author : Adrian O'Connor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526120585
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Book Synopsis In pursuit of politics by : Adrian O'Connor
Download or read book In pursuit of politics written by Adrian O'Connor and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793–94) and putting well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, it situates education at the centre of revolutionary contests over citizenship, participatory politics and representative government. The book takes up education’s role in a dramatic period of uncertainty and upheaval, anxiety and ambition. It traces the convergence of philosophical, political, ideological and practical concerns in Ancien Régime debates and revolutionary attempts to reform education and remake society. In doing so, it provides new insight into the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and sheds light on how revolutionary legislators and ordinary citizens worked to make a new sort of politics possible in eighteenth-century France.