Civic Catechisms and Reason in the French Revolution

by Adrian Velicu (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $148.76

  At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. This title presents an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension, which reconstructs the intellectual world of the Revolution.