French Revolution and Its Legacy - Leaping Democracy Into the Unlimited

This book examines the French revolution from an anthropological perspective, eschewing an analysis in terms of 'good' and 'bad' actors, or progressive and non-progressive forces, and adopting instead the frame of liminality.

Sommario

Prologue
Preface
Introduction: framing the French revolution as fundamental problem of the contemporary
Chapter 1: In and out of the methodological cave: the French revolution as liminal event and predicament of the sacred
Chapter 2: The French revolution and the constitution of metamorphic power (I): from the liminal void to liberté - egalité - fraternité
Chapter 3: The French revolution and the constitution of metamorphic power (II): Jacques Louis David's Tennis Court Oath and the vision of modern democracy as political metamorphosis
Chapter 4: iminality and the disincorporation of royal power: the revolutionary events as symbolic-existential breaks with the past
Chapter 5:
Louis XVI between angelization and the sacrifice of love: the philosophical anthropology of the Christian prince
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

Info autore

Camil Francisc Roman is Lecturer in Political Science at John Cabot University. He is also Vice President of the International Political Anthropology Association and member of the Editorial Board of the journal International Political Anthropology. He is interested in reflexive, historical-genealogical and interpretative approaches to the following areas of research: modern democracy and revolutions, modernity and science, politics and religion. His latest publications include 'Sovereign power and the politics of the pandemic as elementary parasitic social relation' (2023) and 'Charisma: from divine gift to the democratic leader-shop' (2020). He is co-editor of Divinization and Technology. The Political Anthropology of Subversion (2019).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Camil Roman, Camil Francisc Roman, Camil Francisc (John Cabot University Roman
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.07.2025
• EAN: 9781138613942
• ISBN: 978-1-138-61394-2
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Contemporary Liminality
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social and cultural anthropology, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period)