Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution - Couverture souple

Sonenscher, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691180806 ISBN 13 : 9780691180809

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

With deftness, wit, and great erudition, Michael Sonenscher traces the complex and unexpected pre-Jacobin history of the phrase 'sans culottes' to its origins in the rivalries and concerns of the Parisian salons. This probing history brings to life the patronesses, philosophers, wits, and hacks of the ancien regime and illuminates the contending uses of ancient philosophy and visions of society and personal virtue that circulated among them. The analyses of competing Ciceronian and Cynical views of fashion, and of the gulfs between Rousseau and his self-designated acolytes, are particularly powerful. This book will be sure to transform irrevocably our understanding of the notorious emblem of Jacobinism. --Jennifer Pitts, author of A Turn to Empire

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0691180806
• ISBN 13: 9780691180809
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 512