The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT |
INTRODUCTION |
PART ONE STATE, NATION, AND CLASS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION |
One Mars Unshackled: The French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective |
• | 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 |
PART TWO THE TERROR |
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 |
PART THREE THE IDEOLOGICAL LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION |
Ten Practical Reason in the Revolution: Kant's Dialogue with the French Revolution |
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 |
Thirteen Transformations in the Historiography of the Revolution |
Notes |
INDEX |