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Revolutionary Ideas

Revolutionary Ideas

An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

by Jonathan Israel

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appears in French Revolution, Philosophy, and History.

Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observersthat the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culturealmost anything but abstract ...

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