Adrian O'Connor

In pursuit of politics (eBook, ePUB)

Education and revolution in eighteenth-century France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526120588
• Artikelnr.: 50915577

Autorenporträt

Adrian O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - politics: a revolutionary idea and a practical problem
Prologue: the educational "system" of eighteenth-century France 1 Education
and an ambivalent Enlightenment 2 National education: promise and paralysis
3 Public instruction: a new pedagogy for a new politics 4 Constitutional
principles and concrete proposals: reconsidering Talleyrand and Condorcet
on public instruction 5 Revolutionary politics à la plume: the public on
education and politics 6 New wine in old bottles? Ancien Régime schools
imagine the future 7 Republican instruction: an elusive ideal Conclusion -
politics: real, pursued, and promised Index