Technocratic Revolutions: From Industrial to Post-industrial Technocracy

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-52
Author(s):  
Anders Esmark
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
The Core ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The French Revolution

The chapter presents a historical analysis of technocracy and its major revolutions, from its original conception in the French revolution to the latest and largely unexplored revolution from the 1980s and onwards. In this way, the chapter provides a historically informed understanding of the technocratic regime and establishes the core idea that the dynamics and structures of post- industrial society is the main driver of technocratic influence on policy and politics.

scholarly journals Revolutionen i Sæby

Kulturstudier ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen Mührmann-Lund
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Town ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

The revolution in Saeby   In 1790, the citizens of the tiny town of Saeby in northern Jutland demanded a meeting at the Town Hall to confront the town bailiff about his abuse of power as chief of police, but the bailiff refused to obey any “self-made national assemblies”. In Denmark at the time, such examples of popular local unrest were often compared with the French Revolution. However, in later Danish historiography, these disturbances have been seen as “reactive” defences of traditional rights that do not carry the same historical significance as the bourgeois revolution in France, for example. Inspired by an interactional approach to popular unrest, this article argues that the Saeby citizens’ collective protest did indeed have some revolutionary traits: a micro-historical analysis of the conflict as a process shows that the unrest began as a reaction to enclosure and police reforms, and when the town bailiff was suspected of embezzlement, demands for democracy and more transparency grew. Descriptions of the bailiff’s rule as “despotic” show that the citizens of Saeby were inspired by contemporary ideals of democratic absolutism. Thus, the article concludes that popular local disturbances such as these should be seen as part of the revolutionary movement that was taking place elsewhere at that time.

Being and Freedom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Skorupski
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
The French Revolution

Being and Freedom is an account of ethics in Europe from the French Revolution: a phase of philosophical ethics whose influence ran far beyond philosophy, eventually dominating politics and religion in the West. Developments came from France, Germany, and Britain. This book is currently the only study that treats them together as a Europe-wide phenomenon. The first chapter covers the philosophical conflict at the heart of the French Revolution, between the individualism of the Enlightenment and two very different forms of holistic ethics: the old regime’s ethic of service and the radical-democracy of the Rousseauian left. Responses analysing modern freedom and democracy came from a series of French liberal thinkers. In Germany the reaction was to two revolutions seen as inaugurating modernity—the political revolution in France and the philosophical revolution of Kant. Here the fate of religion was critical; with it the metaphysics of being and freedom. The story is traced from Kant to Hegel’s idealist version of ethical holism. In Britain, Enlightenment naturalism remained the prevailing framework. It took different forms: ‘common sense’ and the theory of the sentiments in Scotland, utilitarianism in England. From these elements came a synthesis of European themes by John Stuart Mill—comparable in range but opposed to that of Hegel. This period’s ethical ideas remain the core of late modern ethics and the contested ground on which ethical disagreements take place today. The final chapter is a retrospective and assessment.

Space and Time in the Festivals of the French Revolution

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Ozouf
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The French Revolution

The study of festivals has only recently caught the attention of historians, who have traditionally shown themselves more concerned with the labours and afflictions of men than with their pleasures and diversions. If from this time onward, festivals become an object of historical enquiry, it will be perhaps because industrial society no longer has festivals—or at least that it has the festival only as pageant in which the passive community of onlookers has been substituted for the active community of celebrants—and because our interest in the festival increases to the extent that we lose it. However, we should also mention the historian's debt to the double stimuli of folklore and of ethnology. From folklorists and ethnologists historians have learned to concern themselves with the armature given to human experience by ritualization, even if anonymous, even if destitute of an explicit system of regulation or of a conscious cohesiveness.

scholarly journals Liberty versus popular sovereignty: Constant’s understandig of the „ideas of 1789“ and obstacles in their affirmation

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Molnar
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
True Nature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Natural Tendency ◽  
French People ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Core Idea

In the article the author is dealing with Benjamin de Constant’s assumptions that the core “idea of 1789“ was „reasonable liberty“, that there was a „natural tendency“ of the French people at that time to demand such liberty and that it was later, in the course of revolutionary struggles, suppressed by the usurpators of the popular sovereignty. As a matter of fact, Constant believed that the whole concept of popular sovereignty, invented by the most radical revolutionary leaders, had no other purpose but to enable the creation of new despotism, adapted to new democratic circumstances. Such sharp opposition between liberty and popular sovereignty, as well as the elevation of liberty in the almost one and only „idea of 1789“, seem to be a great oversimplification that prevented Constant in grasping the true nature of permanent nationalistic undercurrents in French revolution. However, his endeavors in advocating the reconciliation of individual and political liberties proved that he also had better insights in the dilemmas of emancipation, the French people were faced with right from the start of revolution.

Information Technologies and Social Change

2018 ◽  
pp. 4715-4722
Author(s):  
Muhammet Ali Köroğlu ◽  
Cemile Zehra Köroğlu
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Information Science ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Globalized World

There are turning points in human history changed the destiny of humanity: Representing the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture, Agricultural Revolution or the Neolithic Revolution. French Revolution that took place in 18th century and the Industrial Revolution providing the transition from the agricultural economy to industrial economy. From 19th century, Information Revolution, the whole world has experienced the effects of it in varying degrees. Information Science and technologies have become areas that their communities give the greatest importance for them and they make maximum investments to them in the globalized world conditions. As Daniel Bell describes, Industrial society left its place to Post-industrial society which is an Information society in a sense.

scholarly journals Modelling as a Method of Analytical History: Its Use in the Study of Human Capital Formation

2020 ◽  
Vol IV (4) ◽  
pp. 133-164
Author(s):  
Ludmila Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Human Capital Formation ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Post Industrial

The article focuses on the qualitative method of schematization. Schemes are commonly used in teaching to illustrate the theoretical material but, as the article shows, they can also serve as an effective research tool since they are verbally concise, visually accessible and systemically organized. Schemes help researchers highlight the aspects that are crucial for understanding the nature of a given phenomenon and reveal the key structural, functional and causal relationships. The potential of schematization as a research method is illustrated by the authors' own experience of modelling the structure and processes of human capital formation in an industrial city. Modelling brings to light the specific characteristics of different stages in the transition from traditional to industrial and post-industrial society. Modelling is based on the assumption that each historical period has its own socio-demographic profile, which can be summarized in the notion of human potential. Each period is characterized by specific scenarios of human potential being transformed into human capital or quasi-capital. Our study uses models in the form of flowcharts supplied with descriptions. The models help us conceptualize the historical analysis of human capital formation in an industrial city during modernization. They prove to be particularly useful for addressing the tasks that constitute the first stage of a historical study.

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