{"product_id":"in-pursuit-of-politics-education-and-revolution-in-eighteenth-century-france-9781526143037","title":"In Pursuit of Politics: Education and Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793–94) and putting well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, it situates education at the centre of revolutionary contests over citizenship, participatory politics and representative government. The book takes up education’s role in a dramatic period of uncertainty and upheaval, anxiety and ambition. It traces the convergence of philosophical, political, ideological and practical concerns in \u003ci\u003eAncien Régime\u003c\/i\u003e debates and revolutionary attempts to reform education and remake society. In doing so, it provides new insight into the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and sheds light on how revolutionary legislators and ordinary citizens worked to make a new sort of politics possible in eighteenth-century France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘In Pursuit of politics\u003c\/i\u003e is thus a welcome addition to the history of education as well as the history of French Revolutionary politics and offers new and important ways of approaching both topics.’\u003cbr\u003eKaren E. Carter, Brigham Young University, \u003ci\u003eFrench History\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 33, Issue 1, March 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We get insightful reconsiderations of Enlightenment luminaries like Rousseau and Condorcet, their work freshly illuminated by the context of eighteenth-century public instruction; even more impressively, we learn they were in a national conversation with ordinary citizens from across France... If it may be that eighteenth-century public instruction is “the history of a failure”, O’Connor nevertheless shows that an account of that history can be a wonderful success.'\u003cbr\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – politics: a revolutionary idea and a practical problem\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: the educational \"system\" of eighteenth-century France\u003cbr\u003e1 Education and an ambivalent Enlightenment          \u003cbr\u003e2 National education: promise and paralysis\u003cbr\u003e3 Public instruction: a new pedagogy for a new politics\u003cbr\u003e4 Constitutional principles and concrete proposals: reconsidering Talleyrand and Condorcet on public instruction\u003cbr\u003e5 Revolutionary politics \u003ci\u003eà la plume\u003c\/i\u003e: the public on education and politics\u003cbr\u003e6 New wine in old bottles? Ancien Régime schools imagine the future\u003cbr\u003e7 Republican instruction: an elusive ideal\u003cbr\u003eConclusion – politics: real, pursued, and promised\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041003602263,"sku":"9781526143037","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526143037.jpg?v=1750948567","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-pursuit-of-politics-education-and-revolution-in-eighteenth-century-france-9781526143037","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}