| 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 |
| Twelve Alexis de Tocqueville and the Legacy of the French Revolution |
| Thirteen Transformations in the Historiography of the Revolution |
| Notes |
| INDEX |