The virtues of violence : democracy against disintegration in modern France / Kevin Duong.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190058449 (ebook) :Subject(s): Political violence -- France -- History | Social conflict -- France -- History | Democracy -- Social aspects -- France | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
| Algeria -- History -- French Expedition, 1830 | Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871 | World War, 1914-1918 -- FranceAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190058418DDC classification: 303.60944 LOC classification: HN440.V5 | D86 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This book uncovers an unfamiliar vision of political violence that nonetheless prevailed in modern French thought: that through "redemptive violence" the people would not rend but regenerate society. It homes in on invocations of popular redemptive violence across four historical moments in France specifically: the French Revolution, Algeria's colonization, the Paris Commune, and the eve of the first World War. In each of these cases, the book reveals how French thinkers experienced democratization as social disintegration. Yet, before such danger, they also proclaimed that virtuous violence by the people could repair the social fabric. The path leading from an anarchic multitude to an organized democratic society required, not violence's prohibition, but its virtuous expression by the people.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book uncovers an unfamiliar vision of political violence that nonetheless prevailed in modern French thought: that through "redemptive violence" the people would not rend but regenerate society. It homes in on invocations of popular redemptive violence across four historical moments in France specifically: the French Revolution, Algeria's colonization, the Paris Commune, and the eve of the first World War. In each of these cases, the book reveals how French thinkers experienced democratization as social disintegration. Yet, before such danger, they also proclaimed that virtuous violence by the people could repair the social fabric. The path leading from an anarchic multitude to an organized democratic society required, not violence's prohibition, but its virtuous expression by the people.
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