Adrian O'Connor

In pursuit of politics

Education and revolution in eighteenth-century France

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Produktbeschreibung

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteenth-century France. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781526120564
• ISBN-10: 1526120569
• Artikelnr.: 48513696

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - politics: a revolutionary idea and a practical problem
Prologue: the educational "system" of eighteenth-century France 1 Education
and an ambivalent Enlightenment 2 National education: promise and paralysis
3 Public instruction: a new pedagogy for a new politics 4 Constitutional
principles and concrete proposals: reconsidering Talleyrand and Condorcet
on public instruction 5 Revolutionary politics à la plume: the public on
education and politics 6 New wine in old bottles? Ancien Régime schools
imagine the future 7 Republican instruction: an elusive ideal Conclusion -
politics: real, pursued, and promised Index