UID:
almahu_9948664284702882
Format:
1 online resource (296 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783653023398
Series Statement:
Polish Ideas in Motion. Past to Present 1
Content:
In this new interpretation of the French Revolution, Jan Baszkiewicz examines revolutionary attempts to «regenerate» man, France and the world in the face of deep-seated and persistent traditions. Using a broad array of primary sources – including pamphlets, diaries, police reports, and debate protocols – Baszkiewicz analyzes the tools French revolutionaries used to build a new society on the wreckage of the Ancien Régime: Spectacular holidays, reforms in family and marriage law, general schooling, the Republican Calendar, the «liberation» of public spaces, education through work, a new religion, terror and war. In the end, the great plans for regeneration failed, though the myths that surrounded those failures lived on well into the twentieth century.
Note:
Contents: Enlightenment philosophers on revolutionary regeneration – The Revolution as Final Judgment – The Revolution as a process – The moral existence of the individual – The new man and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen – The formation of civic attitudes – Revolutionary holidays – Popular culture, the problem of vandalism – National unity on the ruins of regional differences – The problem of linguistic unity – Socio-political guarantees of national unity – Religion as an instrument of integration – The family, the model for the social community – The conflict over political rights for women – The French Revolution as a universal model – The legal and practical situation of foreigners – New hope for a world revolution – The world in revolutionary futurology.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631615768
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-02339-8
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/14696?format=EPDF
