The French Revolution and the birth of modernity [world wide web resource] / edited by Ferenc Fehér.
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The majority of these papers were originally published in Social research, v. 56, no. 1, spring 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Ferenc Fehér -- Mars unshackled : the French Revolution in world-historical perspective / Theda Skocpol and Meyer Kestnbaum -- The making of a "bourgeois revolution" / Eric Hobsbawm -- State and counterrevolution in France / Charles Tilly -- Cultural upheaval and class formation during the French Revolution / Patrice Higonnet -- Jews into Frenchmen : nationality and representation in Revolutionary France / Gary Kates -- The French Revolution as a world-historical event / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Saint-Just and the problem of heroism in the French Revolution / Miguel Abensour -- Violence in the French Revolution : forms of ingestion, forms of expulsion / Brian Singer -- The cult of the supreme being and the limits of the secularization of the political / Ferenc Fehér -- Practical reason in the Revolution : Kant's dialogue with the French Revolution / Ferenc Fehér.
Hegel and the French Revolution : an epitaph for republicanism / Steven B. Smith -- Alexis de Tocqueville and the legacy of the French Revolution / Harvey Mitchell -- Transformations in the historiography of the Revolution / François Furet.
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