In Pursuit Of Politics: Education And Revolution In Eighteent-Century France Hardcover

Adrian O'Connor

This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793-94) and putting well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, it situates education at the centre of revolutionary contests over citizenship, participatory politics and representative government. The book takes up education's role in a dramatic period of uncertainty and upheaval, anxiety and ambition. It traces the convergence of philosophical, political, ideological and practical concerns in Ancien Regime debates and revolutionary attempts to reform education and remake society. In doing so, it provides new insight into the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and sheds light on how revolutionary legislators and ordinary citizens worked to make a new sort of politics possible in eighteenth-century France. -- . ₹6,836.02 ₹8,853.90 You save ₹2,017.88 Free delivery worldwide Available. Dispatched from the UK in 1 business day When will my order arrive?

9781526120564

English

Manchester University Press

26 December 2017

272

Adrian O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg -- .

In Pursuit of Politics is thus a welcome addition to the history of education as well as the history of French Revolutionary politics and offers new and important ways of approaching both topics.' Karen E. Carter, Brigham Young University, French History, Vol. 33, Issue 1, March 2019 -- .