Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
Nonfiction, History, European General
| Author: | Lynn Hunt | ISBN: | 9780520931046 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press | Publication: | October 17, 2016 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lynn Hunt |
| ISBN: | 9780520931046 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Publication: | October 17, 2016 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Language: | English |
When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.
When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.
