180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. It is an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension that forms the basis of this study, which reconstructs the intellectual world of the Revolution. The new radical regime attacked the old institutionalized... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Catechisms: A Retrospective; Chapter 2 Reason: Usage and Meaning; Chapter 3 In Two Minds: Constitutional Monarchy; Chapter 4 Republican Questions; Chapter 5 Republican Answers; Chapter 6 After Thermidor; Chapter 7 Concluding Remarks;
Biography
Adrian Velicu is Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas at Karlstad University, Sweden
