The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity

  ACKNOWLEDGMENT

 expand sectionINTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE  STATE, NATION, AND CLASS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
 expand sectionOne  Mars Unshackled: The French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective
 Two  The Making of a "Bourgeois Revolution"
 Three  State and Counterrevolution in France
 expand sectionFour  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

 collapse sectionPART TWO  THE TERROR
 expand sectionSeven  Saint-Just and the Problem of Heroism in the French Revolution
 expand sectionEight  Violence in the French Revolution: Forms of Ingestion/Forms of Expulsion
 expand sectionNine  The Cult of the Supreme Being and the Limits of the Secularization of the Political

 collapse sectionPART THREE  THE IDEOLOGICAL LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
 expand sectionTen  Practical Reason in the Revolution: Kant's Dialogue with the French Revolution
 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
 expand sectionTwelve  Alexis de Tocqueville and the Legacy of the French Revolution
 expand sectionThirteen  Transformations in the Historiography of the Revolution

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionINDEX

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