Sans-Culottes : An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution / Michael Sonenscher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonenscher, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--France--History--18th century.

Politics and culture.

Symbolism in politics--France--History--18th century.

Symbolism in politics.

Sansculottes.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

France--Intellectual life--18th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrative of its content and course. To explain how an early eighteenth-century salon society joke about breeches and urbanity was transformed into a republican emblem, Sans-Culottes examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging from music and the origins of government to property and the nature of the human soul. By piecing together this now forgotten story, Michael Sonenscher opens up new perspectives on the Enlightenment, eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy, the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the political history of the French Revolution itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS AND A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS

1. INTRODUCTION: "ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING PAIRS OF BREECHES RECORDED IN MODERN HISTORY"

2. AN INGENIOUS EMBLEM

3. DIOGENES AND ROUSSEAU: MUSIC, MORALITY, AND SOCIETY

4. PROPERTY, EQUALITY, AND THE PASSIONS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH THOUGHT

5. THE ENTITLEMENTS OF MERIT

6. CONCLUSION: DEMOCRACY AND TERROR

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-474) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400829026

140082902X

OCLC:

1080552000