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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian O'Connor, Adrian O''connor
• Assisted by: Maire Cross (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781526120564
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2056-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Modern French History; Studies in Modern French Histo; Studies in Modern French Histo; Studies in Modern French and Francophone History; Studies in Modern French and F
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories