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Revolutionary Ideas
Jonathan Israel
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution.
In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.
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Monarchy, Counter-Enlightenment, Nantes, Despotism, Legislature, Helen Maria Williams, Democracy, Montesquieu, Populism, Nobility, Prejudice, Cordeliers, Popular sovereignty, Subversion, Paris Commune, Republicanism, Decree, Sovereignty, Maximilien Robespierre, Counter-revolutionary, Voting, Committee of Public Safety, Jacobin (politics), Authoritarianism, Feuillant (political group), Defection, Constitutional monarchy, Monarchism, Theocracy, Writing, Slavery, Freedom of speech, Sans-culottes, Protestantism, Constitutionalism, Unrest, Persecution, Representative democracy, Philosophy, Prussia, Politique, Direct democracy, Election, Parlement, Insurgency, Sedition, September Massacres, Democratic republic, Ultra-royalist, 10 August (French Revolution), Oligarchy, Clergy, Radicalism (historical), Thomas Paine, Pamphlet, Girondins, Jacobin, Manifesto, Edict, Atheism, Ideology, Napoleon, Politics, Revolution, Aristocracy, Legislation, Thermidorians, Dictatorship, Rhetoric, Camille Desmoulins