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" A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, the Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson,...
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"Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges--who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class--investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution,...
3) Common sense
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On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense", a persuasive argument for the colonies' political and economic separation from Britain. It cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. Today, it remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished not only...
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La memoria es un espacio de lucha: el recuerdo no es algo que el poder pueda dejar sin gobernar, sobre todo el recuerdo de un momento que cambió el curso de las vidas y la realidad misma. En mayo de 2008 se cumplirán 40 años del célebre movimiento de Mayo del 68, la mayor huelga general de la historia de Francia y la única insurrección generalizada que ha experimentado el mundo "desarrollado" en la segunda mitad del siglo xx. La "memoria reactiva"...
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La historia del siglo xx es la historia del conflicto y las alianzas entre tres figuras: el sabio, portador de la inteligencia acumulada en infinitos gestos de producción, creación y reflexión, el mercader, que convierte los productos de la inteligencia humana en mercancía, y el guerrero, expresión de la violencia que regula la relación entre inteligencia y mercancía, entre saber y técnica.
El movimiento del 68 trató de liberar al sabio...
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Entre 1957 y 1965, junto a Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Jean-François Lyotard y otros muchos, Daniel Blanchard participa en las actividades del colectivo revolucionario Socialismo o Barbarie, que desarrolla una crítica radical de los regímenes del Este y del Oeste a partir del "revelador" que constituía la capacidad de autoorganización del movimiento obrero.
En 1959 entabló amistad y colaboración con Guy Debord, líder de la Internacional...
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"Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers" Jonathan Israel is professor of modern history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (Princeton).
How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for...
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man argues that human rights are inherent. As such, they cannot be conferred on citizens by their governments because to do so would mean that these rights can be revoked by that same government. Paine further suggests that government is responsible for protecting the rights of men, and therefore, the interests of governments and citizens are united. Within this context, Paine argues that revolution is acceptable when the...
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Written by one of the greatest anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "The Great French Revolution — 1789—1793" is not to be missed by those with an interest in history and sociology. In this volume, Kropotkin offers a thought-provoking alternative perspective on the French Revolution. Contents include: "The Two Great Currents of the Revolution", "The Idea", "Action", "The People Before the Revolution", "The Spirit of Revolt: the...
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We inhabit extraordinary times, times in which we are acutely, aware of the intensity of what revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon called "the glare of history's floodlights." The velocity and scale at which the revolt against police murder that began in Minnesota after the death of George Floyd on May 25th and moved throughout the US, and then other parts of the world, was astonishing. It was impossible to predict, but then, in retrospect, it is George...
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Excerpted from Antidisestablishmentarianism --
Hint. It's not what you think. It's a recipe for persecution, corruption and heresy. America's founding fathers understood that government must protect freedom, including the freedom to practice all religions. But they also understood that not all religions teach men how to be good citizens and make their countries prosper. The truth isn't out there somewhere, unfindable and unknowable. It's right here....
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This is the most extensive collection of Peter Kropotkin's writings available in English. Over half the selections have been translated for the first time or salvaged from long-out-of-print pamphlets and newspapers. Both an introduction to classic texts and a recontextualization of Kropotkin from saintly philosopher to dangerous revolutionary, Direct Struggle Against Capital includes a historical introduction, biographical sketch, glossary, bibliography,...
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Tom Cutterham is Lecturer in United States History at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen-the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite-worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control...
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Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Henry Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of many books, most recently, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (with Scott L. Montgomery) (Princeton), which was named one of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year.
Why most modern revolutions have ended...
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Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and honorary professor at the Collège de France. His many books include Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections; Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist; and Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political...
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Extrait: "Le livre de M. Saisset (que l'auteur me pardonne de commencer par une critique) a le défaut de porter un titre trop général; on ne voit pas assez quel est le sujet. Philosophie religieuse est un nom vague qui se prête aux designations les plus diverses; d'ordinaire il indique quelque nouvelle tentative pour concilier la philosophie et le christianisme, la raison et la foi..."
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