Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Conclusion: Democracy and Terror
View through CrossRef
This chapter discusses how the very particular setting in which the emergence of the
sans-culottes
in their now familiar guise occurred goes some way towards explaining why the mixture of descriptive and causal claims built into the old master concepts of class or sovereignty of French Revolutionary historiography have never been able to provide much of an explanation of either its content or course, at least without the more complicated assumptions supplied by an assortment of nineteenth-century philosophies of history. Reconstructing that setting, on the other hand, does go some way towards explaining what led to the fusion between high politics and popular politics that occurred in France in the winter of 1791–2.
Title: Conclusion: Democracy and Terror
Description:
This chapter discusses how the very particular setting in which the emergence of the
sans-culottes
in their now familiar guise occurred goes some way towards explaining why the mixture of descriptive and causal claims built into the old master concepts of class or sovereignty of French Revolutionary historiography have never been able to provide much of an explanation of either its content or course, at least without the more complicated assumptions supplied by an assortment of nineteenth-century philosophies of history.
Reconstructing that setting, on the other hand, does go some way towards explaining what led to the fusion between high politics and popular politics that occurred in France in the winter of 1791–2.
Related Results
Criticism of the War on Terror
Criticism of the War on Terror
The war against terror in the mainstream of approaches and strategies is very stigmatizing towards certain cultures and results in unclear targets. The controversy over the U.S. at...
Konsep Dan Urgensi Demokrasi Pancasila
Konsep Dan Urgensi Demokrasi Pancasila
Democracy as a system has become an alternative in various social and state activities in several countries. The reason for making democracy a social and state system is because al...
Convergence of Islam and Democracy
Convergence of Islam and Democracy
This studyattempts to analysethe relationship between Islam and democracy objectively with logical rational arguments. It aims to clarify the differences between Islam and democrac...
Pandangan M. Natsir Tentang Demokrasi: Kajian Pemikiran Politik Islam
Pandangan M. Natsir Tentang Demokrasi: Kajian Pemikiran Politik Islam
This article discusses M. Natsir view on the concept of democracy in Islam. In the map of Islamic political thought, there are differing views on the concept of democracy from the ...
Self-Limitation and Democracy Lefort’s Model of Council Democracy
Self-Limitation and Democracy Lefort’s Model of Council Democracy
This chapter explores the theory of council democracy developed by the French political thinker Claude Lefort. Like his onetime compatriot in Socialisme ou Barberie, Cornelius Cast...
The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era
The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era
Although the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twenty-first has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominan...
Internal Democracy in Pakistani Religious Parties: A Comparative Analysis of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami
Internal Democracy in Pakistani Religious Parties: A Comparative Analysis of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami
Democratization is an important phenomenon in the contemporary world. An important feature of modern representative democracy is the emergence of political parties, as these are re...
The Malady of Nigeria’s Democracy and Its Effect on Governance
The Malady of Nigeria’s Democracy and Its Effect on Governance
Practically, democracy has been the tune that most states are dancing to because of its flexibility and accountability, which allows citizens to take part in the government’s decis...