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Author:   Sophie Wahnich ,  Owen Glyn-Williams
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781786616173

ISBN 10:   1786616173
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   14 March 2022
Recommended Age:   From 21 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction – The French Revolution is Not a Myth: Sartre, Lévi- Strauss, Foucault, Lacan and us Part I Chapter one – How did the French Revolution become a Sartrean object? Chapter two – Working with historical details against the fetishizing of reality Chapter three – Do not dissolve the real men of the French Revolution in a bath of sulfuric acid Chapter four – Restoring the sacred to its place Chapter five– Apocalypse and Fraternity-Terror Chapter six – The question of dialectical time and the futility of the notion of rearguard Part II Chapter seven – Three humanities in one, Europeans, colonized, savages Chapter eight – Conclude a book, conclude a discussion Chapter nine – Michel Foucault and the French Revolution: a misunderstanding? Chapter ten – The French Revolution in between archaeologies of knowledge, discourse formations, and social formations Chapter eleven – Surrounding the Iranian revolution, retrieving the missed object with Foucault, in spite of Foucault Chapter twelve – the French Revolution, matrix of totalitarianism, a strange enigma of a statement Chapter thirteen – Sade and the folds of the ethics of the French Revolution Conclusion – Dissipating layers of fog

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Sophie Wahnich is director of research in history and political science at the National Research Institute (Centre national de recherche scientifique, CNRS) and director of the IIAC in the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France. A specialist of the French Revolution trained in discourse analysis and political theory, Sophie Wahnich examines disruptive historical events and their consequences for the political, social, and emotional fabric of society. Owen Glyn-Williams is a PhD candidate and philosophy instructor at DePaul University. His research focuses on early modern philosophy and contemporary political thought.

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