The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity

  ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 collapse sectionINTRODUCTION
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 collapse sectionPART ONE  STATE, NATION, AND CLASS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
 collapse sectionOne  Mars Unshackled: The French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective
 An "Internalist" Interpretation of the French Revolution?
 Geopolitical Decline and the Outbreak of the Revolution
 War and Political Radicalization
 The Napoleonic Denouement
 In Conclusion: Retaining a Comparative Perspective on the French Revolution
 Two  The Making of a "Bourgeois Revolution"
 Three  State and Counterrevolution in France
 collapse sectionFour  Cultural Upheaval and Class Formation During the French Revolution
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 Five  Jews into Frenchmen: Nationality and Representation in Revolutionary France
 Six  The French Revolution as a World-Historical Event

 collapse sectionPART TWO  THE TERROR
 collapse sectionSeven  Saint-Just and the Problem of Heroism in the French Revolution
 De La Nature . . .: Late 1791–1792
 Reconstitution of the De La Nature . . . Manuscript
 Naturalism, Primitivism, and the Theory of Social Right
 The Paradoxes of Saint-Just: From the Revolution as Restoration to the Revolution as Abyss
 collapse sectionEight  Violence in the French Revolution: Forms of Ingestion/Forms of Expulsion
 Rudié's Populist History
 The September Massacres
 Forms of Violence
 Law and Society
 collapse sectionNine  The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Limits of the Secularization of the Political
 Representative Interpretations
 The Fury of Rationalization and the Revolutionary Fiasco
 The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Critique of Political Reason

 collapse sectionPART THREE  THE IDEOLOGICAL LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
 collapse sectionTen  Practical Reason in the Revolution: Kant's Dialogue with the French Revolution
 The First Great Political Philosopher of Modernity
 Res Publica Noumenon
 Politics and Morals
 collapse sectionEleven  Hegel and the French Revolution: An Epitaph for Republicanism
 The Impulse from Philosophy
 Reason and Revolution
 The Politics of Virtue
 The Revolutionary Hero
 Conclusion
 collapse sectionTwelve  Alexis de Tocqueville and the Legacy of the French Revolution
 The Revolution as Contradiction
 "Le Mal Révolutionnaire"
 collapse sectionThirteen  Transformations in the Historiography of the Revolution
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 collapse sectionNotes
 One Mars Unshackled: The French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective1
 Two The Making of a "Bourgeois Revolution"
 Three State and Counterrevolution in France
 Four Cultural Upheaval and Class Formation During the French Revolution
 Five Jews into Frenchmen: Nationality and Representation in Revolutionary France
 Six The French Revolution as a World-Historical Event
 Seven Saint-Just and the Problem of Heroism in the French Revolution
 Eight Violence in the French Revolution: Forms of Ingestion/Forms of Expulsion
 Nine The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Limits of the Secularization of the Political
 Ten Practical Reason in the Revolution: Kant's Dialogue with the French Revolution
 Eleven Hegel and the French Revolution: An Epitaph for Republicanism
 Twelve Alexis de Tocqueville and the Legacy of the French Revolution
 Thirteen Transformations in the Historiography of the Revolution
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