The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT |
INTRODUCTION |
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• | 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 |
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• | 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 |
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