Revolutionary Ideas
：An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
Publication subTitle ：An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
Author： Israel Jonathan
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400849994
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691169712
Subject： K565.41 法国资产阶级革命至巴黎公社前夕（1789~1870年）
Keyword： 社会科学理论与方法论,哲学理论,政治理论,世界史,欧洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution.
In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.
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