In pursuit of politics: Education and revolution in eighteenth-century France (Studies in Modern French and Francophone History) - Softcover

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O'Connor, Adrian ; O’Connor, Adrian

9781526143037: In pursuit of politics: Education and revolution in eighteenth-century France (Studies in Modern French and Francophone History)

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ISBN 10: 1526143038 ISBN 13: 9781526143037

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2019

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Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteenth-century France.

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

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'In pursuit of politics is 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, French History

In pursuit of politics presents a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Covering the period from the 1760s to the Terror (1793–94), it puts well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, situating education at the center of revolutionary contests over citizenship, participatory politics, and representative government.

Education was central to people’s notions of what was desirable and achievable in eighteenth-century France. This book weaves together debates among philosophes, royal administrators, revolutionary legislators, private citizens, political clubs, and provincial schoolmasters to provide a window into one of history’s most dramatic periods of uncertainty and upheaval. In doing so, it identifies the symptoms of a deep crisis in the French political imagination, provoked by competing visions of French society, the French nation, and the workings of the Ancien R�gime state.

The book highlights the emergence of “public instruction” as a revolutionary pedagogy, one that transcended pre-revolutionary expectations and underwrote efforts to establish a participatory and representative politics in France. This allows us to think in new ways about how the citizens and statesmen of eighteenth-century France tried to navigate politics at the dawn of the modern period.

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