Civic Catechisms and Reason in the French Revolution

Adrian Velicu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-6998-2 (ISBN)

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At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. It is an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension that forms the basis of this study, which reconstructs the intellectual world of the Revolution. The new radical regime attacked the old institutionalized forms of Catholic worship and instruction, yet retained the catechetical outlook with its dogmatic mindset as an important feature of political education. Catechisms not only conveyed information in an accessible manner, they also revealed the intellectual tendencies of those who favoured the genre. Civic catechisms were meant to play an important part of revolutionary instruction; they were the only category of texts repeatedly mentioned in the National Assembly and in various pieces of legislation, including education bills, and there were calls for a 'national catechism'. The status of the catechisms changed throughout the Revolution, and this study also investigates the degree of continuity of purpose across the period, as well as the catechisms' place alongside other texts such as speeches and bills. An important contribution to the literature on the intellectual history of the French Revolution, this book will also be of interest to scholars of rhetoric, education and the intellectual history of the eighteenth century, as well as to revolutionary studies in general.

Adrian Velicu is Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas at Karlstad University, Sweden

Introduction; Chapter 1 Catechisms: A Retrospective; Chapter 2 Reason: Usage and Meaning; Chapter 3 In Two Minds: Constitutional Monarchy; Chapter 4 Republican Questions; Chapter 5 Republican Answers; Chapter 6 After Thermidor; Chapter 7 Concluding Remarks;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.9.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7546-6998-X / 075466998X
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-6998-2 / 9780754669982
Zustand	Neuware