The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution) - Softcover

Chartier, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822309939 ISBN 13: 9780822309932

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 1991

Synopsis

Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.”
Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the seminal contribution of Daniel Mornet’s Les origens intellectuelles de la Révolution française (1935), he synthesizes the half-century of scholarship that has created a sociology of culture for Revolutionary France, from education reform through widely circulated printed literature to popular expectations of government and society. Chartier goes beyond Mornet’s work, not be revising that classic text but by raising questions that would not have occurred to its author.
Chartier’s second contribution is to reexamine the conventional wisdom that there is a necessary link between the profound cultural transformation of the eighteenth century (generally characterized as the Enlightenment) and the abrupt Revolutionary rupture of 1789. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution is a major work by one of the leading scholars in the field and is likely to set the intellectual agenda for future work on the subject.

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Renowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French historians now refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French Revolution not simply by pinpointing its 'cultural origins' but by investigating the conditions that 'made it possible because conceivable.'Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

About the Author:

Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Keith Michael Baker is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of History and Director of the Humanities Center at Stanford University. His works include" Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. "Peter Hanns Reill is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. Among his works is" The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism."

Lydia G. Cochrane has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0822309939
• ISBN 13: 9780822309932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238