... to which he plays a central role. His ideas and even his temperament seem to guide her profound praise for “the men who made the American Revolution” alongside her shock centered around Robespierre but mingled with her discussion of Rousseau and the French Revolution. This connection between Burke...

.... This essay elucidates Deane's shifting conceptions of Irish writing and national culture as developed from his early works such as The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789–1832 and Celtic Revivals through the initial three volumes of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing up to later works...

...David Simpson This essay argues that the recourse to terror as the defining term of the 9/11 experience is at odds with the rhetorical choices made by Edmund Burke in his writings on the French Revolution, as well as by various Cold War theorists in the 1950s. Burke regarded terror...

...Seamus Deane The essay tracks the history of republicanism in Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The eighteenth-century rebellion of the United Irishmen of 1798 was based on the principles of the American and French Revolutions. But after the Great Famine of 1845–47, although...

...Russ Castronovo How was public opinion forged in the Atlantic world during the age of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions? This essay takes up this question by looking at the vexed role of propaganda in manufacturing democratic consent. In particular, it examines a counterfeit set...

... transcribed and will first be published in Arabic, to be followed by French and English translations, with the aim of recording in detail the Revolution of Dignity and Democracy as it was occurring. Pending the publication of this book, which documents the impulses, aspirations, and hopes of the youth...

...David Becerra Mayor; Lauren Mushro Based on the notion of événement (event), elaborated by the French philosopher Alain Badiou, this essay aims to offer a definition of the 15M movement as an event. According to Badiou, the event has the capacity to perforate established knowledge and to transform...

... 1. Revolutionaries Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville agreed in their analyses of some of the causes of the French Revolution, most particularly on the role of the ‘‘men of letters and the prestige and influence they gained as the tra- ditional political elites lost power. This new...

... Immanuel Kant s assessment of the French Revolution given in his treatise on educa- tion, The Conflict of the Faculties (Kant 1992: 153 57). Kant s pronounce- ments of revolution have come under considerable scrutiny among politi- cal philosophers of late in accordance with a renewed investment in his...

... of sovereign rights. Foucault characterized the French Revolution as the historical moment in which this generalized transformation of sovereign power took place. But unlike James, he did not explain the roles that the slave planta- tion and the coloniality of power played in accomplishing...

... treatment of the French Revolution, like Christopher Hill’s account of the English Civil War, was never universally accepted but defined the framework for debate among a generation of his- torians ranging from Albert Soboul and Alfred Cobban to Lawrence Stone and Conrad Russell.13 The other...

.... In Grafton and Bell's telling, the Enlightenment unfolds over the course of two centuries. A scientific revolution broke out between 1600 and 1640 at the same time that an international Republic of Letters was emerging. An itinerant coterie of writers shared mastery of Latin, with French en route to becoming...

... for the core and associate professor of history at Boston College. His book From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought won the 2008 Morris D. Forkosch book prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. He is currently working on the conceptual history of terror and ter- rorism...

.... Trotsky objects on historical grounds: the Reformation succeeded because it unleashed terror against its opponents. Cromwell used terror to advance his cause, and Robespierre used it to insure the triumph of the French Revolution, he Interventions / Godzich / Fear without...

...–62, 790–94. 30. Jacques Barzun, The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Politi- cal Implications Prior to the Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1932), 244. 142 boundary 2 / Spring 2002 Gabriel Bonnet de Mably and Jean-Paul Marat are among Foucault’s ex...

... of rupture embodied in a political event (e.g., the French Revolution) but nevertheless incorporating some of the novelties it carries within a narrative where radi- cal subjectivity and collective action are simply hysterical and catastrophic gestures which, at best, give rise to changes...

..., that the great French revolutionaries ‘‘Desmoulins, Danton, Robespierre, Saint-Just, Napoleon, the heroes as well as the parties and the masses of the old French Revolution, per- formed their task in Roman costume and with Roman...

... of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture . Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press . Grenby M. O. 2006 . “Writing Revolution: British Literature and the French Revolution Crisis, a Review of Recent Scholarship...

... of a multivolume exposé by the former Jesuit Royalist, the Abbé Barruel, outlining the Masons’/Illuminati’s clandestine role in fomenting the French Revolution—and, more to the point, in spreading the French disease through Irish carriers on a world scale:29 As the plague flies on the wings of the wind...

... of the pursuing apartheid police. A Makerere student at the time, I had just read Orczy’s novel The Scarlet Pimpernel, set during the French Revolution, and it was easy to equate the French reign of terror with apartheid’s and Man- dela with the Percy character, the master of disguises and elusive moves...