The Structure of Modern Ideology

1939 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-399
Author(s):  
Francis G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The French Revolution

“THEORIES of Government!” exclaims Thomas Carlyle in the early pages of The French Revolution. “Such has been, and will be; in ages of decadence. Acknowledge them in their degree; as processes of Nature, who does nothing in vain; as steps in her great process.” The social theorist of today takes more seriously than Carlyle the existence of ideology, for ideology is an expression of spiritual unrest in the face of history-making issues. In turn, ideology itself becomes a problem, and we are led to examine its nature. Especially is this true today, which is a time of passionate affirmation of ambiguous positions rather than the observation of political behavior.

‘The greatest irregular’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Scurr
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dramatic Narrative ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

Thomas Carlyle claimed that his history of the French Revolution was ‘a wild savage book, itself a kind of French Revolution …’. This chapter considers his stylistic approaches to creating the illusion of immediacy: his presentation of seemingly unmediated fact through the transformation of memoir and other kinds of historical record into a compelling dramatic narrative. Closely examining the ways in which he worked biographical anecdote into the fabric of his text raises questions about Carlyle’s wider historical purposes. Pressing the question of what it means to think through style, or to distinguish expressive emotive writing from abstract understanding, is an opportunity to reconsider Carlyle’s relation to his predecessors and contemporaries writing on the Revolution in English.

The French Revolution: A History in Three Volumes by Thomas Carlyle

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
David Paroissien
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
The French Revolution

Christianity as Insurrection

1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-324
Author(s):  
P. Matheson
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Women Slaves ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
The French Revolution

To suggest that authentic Christianity is an insurrectionary faith, a standing provocation to the conventional values of society is, on the face of it, to invite derision. Yet the ferocity with which the first Christians were persecuted was in no small part due to their subversive teachings and practices which gave women, slaves and artisans ideas above their station. This subversive dimension may often have been forgotten. It can hardly have been very evident to the inhabitants of Wittenberg in 1515, for example, yet within a decade Germany was to be embroiled in an unprecedented crisis of authority, one which led not only to turmoil in the world of student and scholar and cleric, but to the greatest social upheaval prior to the French Revolution, to the uffrur we know as the Peasants' War.

Amalgamating the Social in the French Revolution

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Censer
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
The Social ◽  
The French Revolution

The Social Origins of the French Revolution: The Debate on the Role of the Middle Classes

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
James Eastgate Brink ◽  
Ralph W. Greenlaw
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The French Revolution

scholarly journals Frigørelsens poetik

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (64) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Ladegaard
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
The People ◽  
Cornelius Castoriadis ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
The Face ◽  
Common Principle ◽  
Exclusive Property ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

Jakob Ladegaard: "Frigørelsens poetik - Den franske revolution og poetisk indbildningskraft i Wordsworths The Prelude"AbstractJakob Ladegaard: “The Poetics of Emancipation – Poetic Imagination and The French Revolution in Wordsworth’s The Prelude”It has often been argued that William Wordsworth’s tribute to poetic imagination in his great epic poem The Prelude (1805/1850) should be read as the mature poet’s farewell to the historical and political world of The French Revolution to which the young Wordsworth was greatly attached. The present essay argues to the contrary that the elaboration of the concept of imagination in the poem is tied to an affirmative re-interpretation of the popular and democratic elements of the revolution in the face of its disappointing decline into elitism, terror and The Revolutionary Wars. A close reading of The Prelude’s narration of the poet’s travels to France during the revolution suggests that poetic imagination is not the exclusive property of the artistic genius, but a common principle put into democratic practice by anonymousmasses on the roads of France. The relations thus established in the poem between the poet and the people are interpreted through the lenses of the English republican tradition and recent democratic theories advanced by French philosophers like Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Jacques Rancière.

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
The Many ◽  
The French Revolution

This text offers a comprehensive overview of the varied historiographical landscape of the French Revolution. Contributions consider in detail the intersection of longstanding debates and recent groundbreaking research, ranging from the social, economic and demographic shifts underpinning the condition of France in the 1780s, through the varied international contexts of the revolutionary crisis, to an extensive and multi-dimensional discussion of all the many phases of the turbulent 1790s, and concluding with far-ranging reflections on the longer-term repercussions of the events in their social, cultural and political dimensions.

Linguistic Justice vs. Linguistic Diversity

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Jürgen Trabant
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Professional Skill ◽  
Global English ◽  
Linguistic Justice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The French Revolution

The linguistic uniformity of Europe (or the globe) is currently enforced not only by powerful economic and political forces but also by sociologists and social philosophers. At first, the learning of global English was only considered to be a necessary professional skill, then, the positive connotations of “plurilingualism” were evoked for fostering its universal adoption. Now, the acquisition of “globalese” is promoted as a means to achieve social justice. The rhetoric of justice immunises this discourse against any criticism (what can you say against justice?). Its political aims and measures are reminiscent of the aims and measures of the linguistic Jacobinism in the French Revolution. The propagandistic moves of the social sciences are accompanied by a polemic against linguistic diversity and the connection of language to culture. They are based on a reductive conception of language that underestimates their cognitive and, hence, cultural potential.

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