The French Revolution and its legacy : leaping democracy into the unlimited / Camil Francisc Roman.

Roman, Camil,
The French Revolution and its legacy :
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9780429464294 (electronic bk.)
0429464290 (electronic bk.)
9780429875205 (electronic bk. : PDF)
0429875207 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9780429875182 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
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0429875193 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781138613942
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Oxford : Routledge, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations.
Dizi
Contemporary liminality
İçindekiler Notu
ProloguePrefaceIntroduction: framing the French revolution as fundamental problem of the contemporaryChapter 1: In and out of the methodological cave: the French revolution as liminal event and predicament of the sacredChapter 2: The French revolution and the constitution of metamorphic power (I): from the liminal void to liberté - egalité - fraternité Chapter 3: The French revolution and the constitution of metamorphic power (II): Jacques Louis David's Tennis Court Oath and the vision of modern democracy as political metamorphosisChapter 4: Liminality and the disincorporation of royal power: the revolutionary events as symbolic-existential breaks with the pastChapter 5: The execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror and civil warChapter 6: Louis XVI between angelization and the sacrifice of love: the philosophical anthropology of the Christian princeConclusionEpilogueBibliographyName IndexSubject Index
Özet, vb.
This book offers an interpretation of the French Revolution and modern democracy, arguing that the revolution gave rise to a democratic power that is liminal by nature, and therefore unlimited, unaccountable on principle, and the basis for a state religion of continuous transformation. It demonstrates these claims by focusing on the universally adulated but little understood sacred motto 'liberté, egalité, fraternité', and on the sacrifice and role of Louis XVI in the revolution. Analysing the revolutionary process by which representative democratic government took the shape of political metamorphosis, the book shows that modern democracy does not represent the people but refers to the representation of representation and the existential condition of permanent displacement. The present study will appeal to scholars from across the social, political and human sciences with an interest in the French Revolution, modern democracy, political modernity, contemporary politics and the history of art.
Konu
Democracy __ France.
France __ History __ Revolution, 1789-1799.
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