| The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENT |
| INTRODUCTION |
| • | I |
| • | II |
| • | III |
| PART ONE STATE, NATION, AND CLASS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION |
| One 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 |
| Four Cultural Upheaval and Class Formation During the French Revolution |
| • | I |
| • | II |
| • | III |
| • | IV |
| • | V |
| • | Five Jews into Frenchmen: Nationality and Representation in Revolutionary France |
| • | Six The French Revolution as a World-Historical Event |
| PART TWO THE TERROR |
| Seven 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 |
| Eight Violence in the French Revolution: Forms of Ingestion/Forms of Expulsion |
| • | Rudié's Populist History |
| • | The September Massacres |
| • | Forms of Violence |
| • | Law and Society |
| Nine 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 |
| PART THREE THE IDEOLOGICAL LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION |
| Ten 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 |
| Eleven Hegel and the French Revolution: An Epitaph for Republicanism |
| • | The Impulse from Philosophy |
| • | Reason and Revolution |
| • | The Politics of Virtue |
| • | The Revolutionary Hero |
| • | Conclusion |
| Twelve Alexis de Tocqueville and the Legacy of the French Revolution |
| • | The Revolution as Contradiction |
| • | "Le Mal Révolutionnaire" |
| Thirteen Transformations in the Historiography of the Revolution |
| • | I |
| • | II |
| Notes |
| • | 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 |
| INDEX |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | Q |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | Y |
| • | Z |