In Pursuit of Politics

Education and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

Adrian O'Connor

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Manchester University Press
07 November 2017

European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; French Revolution

Series: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History

This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793-94) and putting well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, it situates education at the centre of revolutionary contests over citizenship, participatory politics and representative government. The book takes up education's role in a dramatic period of uncertainty and upheaval, anxiety and ambition. It traces the convergence of philosophical, political, ideological and practical concerns in Ancien Regime debates and revolutionary attempts to reform education and remake society. In doing so, it provides new insight into the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and sheds light on how revolutionary legislators and ordinary citizens worked to make a new sort of politics possible in eighteenth-century France. -- .

By: Adrian O'Connor
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9781526120564
ISBN 10: 1526120569
Series: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 07 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adrian O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Reviews for In Pursuit of Politics: Education and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

'In Pursuit of politics is thus a welcome addition to the history of education as well as the history of French Revolutionary politics and offers new and important ways of approaching both topics.' Karen E. Carter, Brigham Young University, French History, Vol. 33, Issue 1, March 2019 'We get insightful reconsiderations of Enlightenment luminaries like Rousseau and Condorcet, their work freshly illuminated by the context of eighteenth-century public instruction; even more impressively, we learn they were in a national conversation with ordinary citizens from across France... If it may be that eighteenth-century public instruction is the history of a failure , O'Connor nevertheless shows that an account of that history can be a wonderful success.' Journal of Modern History -- .