In Pursuit of Politics by Adrian O'Connor - 9781526120564

In Pursuit of PoliticsEducation and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France\nAuthor(s): Adrian O'Connor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526120564, 978-1526120564\nSynopsis\nThis study offers 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 [tel] 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 educations role in a dramatic period of uncertainty and upheaval, anxiety and ambition. It traces the convergence of philosophical, political, ideological and practical concerns in Ancien Rgime debates and revolutionary attempts to reform education and remake society. In doing so, it provides new insight into the re.