Revolutions revisited : two faces of the politics of enlightenment /
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 a...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
©1994.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807862865_lerner |
Sommario:
- pt. 1. Looking forward: Dr. Janus
- America's place in the Enlightenment
- A dialogue of fathers and sons
- pt. 2. Re-visioning "Our revolution": What manner of speech?
- Burke's muffled oars
- Lincoln's revolution
- Tocqueville's political sermon
- Revival through recollection.