The French Revolution in Theory

by Sophie Wahnich

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786616181
• ISBN13: 9781786616180
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 21 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary