Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem In The French Revolution

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This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrative of its content and course. To explain how an early eighteenth-century salon society joke about breeches and urbanity was transformed into a republican emblem, Sans-Culottes examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging from music and the origins of government to property and the nature of the human soul. By piecing together this now forgotten story, Michael Sonenscher opens up new perspectives on the Enlightenment, eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy, the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the political history of the French Revolution itself.


  • | Author: Michael Sonenscher
  • | Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • | Publication Date: Jun 12, 2018
  • | Number of Pages: 512 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/History
  • | ISBN-10: 0691180806
  • | ISBN-13: 9780691180809
Author:
Michael Sonenscher
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
Jun 12, 2018
Number of pages:
512 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/History
ISBN-10:
0691180806
ISBN-13:
9780691180809