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.

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Main Author: O'Connor, Adrian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Altrincham Street, Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017
Series:Studies in modern French history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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 a la plume: the public on education and politics
  • 6. New wine in old bottles? Ancien Regime schools imagine the future
  • 7. Republican instruction: an elusive ideal.