The French Revolution in theory Reinventing critical theory./ Sophie Wahnich ; translated by Owen Glyn-Williams.

Abstract

It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why.