TY  - GEN
T1  - Revolutions revisited : two faces of the politics of enlightenment
A1  - Lerner, Ralph
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm42329038
AB  - What happens after the revolution? In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner explores how suchs enlightened revolutionaries as Franklin, Lincoln, and Tocqueville met the challenge of translating a revolution into lasting political and social change. Eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and Europe, Lerner argues, found that a revolution aimed at liberating bodies and minds had somehow to be explained and defended. His analysis, anchored in the speeches and writings of profound thinkers who were also prominent and skilled practitioners of politics, broadens and deepens the conventional understanding of the Enlightenment. According to Lerner, revolutionaries in America and Europe brought different degrees of awareness and political savvy to their tasks and reaped highly distinctive results. Lerner first investigates how the makers of revolution sought to improve their public's aspirations and chances. He pays particular attention to Benjamin Franklin, to the tone and substance of revolutionaries' appeals on both sides of the Atlantic, and to the preoccupations of first- and second-generation enlighteners among the Americans. He then unfolds the art by which later political actors, confronting the profound political, constitutional, and social divisions of their own day, drew upon and reworked their national revolutionary heritage. Lerner's examination of the speeches and writings of Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexis de Tocqueville shows them to be masters of a political rhetoric once closely analyzed by Plato and his medieval student al-Farabi but now nearly forgotten. Theirs might be said to be enlightenment's other face.
OP  - 136
CN  - JA84.U5 L387 1994eb
SN  - 0585023948
SN  - 9780585023946
SN  - 9780807837986
SN  - 0807837989
SN  - 080786286X
SN  - 9780807862865
SN  - 0807821365
KW  - Political science : United States : History.
KW  - Enlightenment : United States.
KW  - Enlightenment.
KW  - Siècle des Lumières : États-Unis.
KW  - Siècle des Lumières.
KW  - Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Ideologies : General.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : General.
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Political science
KW  - United States
KW  - History
ER  -