Démocratie et révolution
Collection Cerf Politique
1200 pages - avril 2012
46,20€
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Since the French Revolution, two words, two notions, two great schools of thought and action have haunted the world; sometimes navigating alongside, sometimes in violent confrontation: they are democracy and revolution. Their concomitance caused the world to live more upheaval in two centuries than during the three previous millennia. But this process was not a chronological, progressive or pacific one; it was marked by fall-backs and bloody revolutions, coups d’état and dictatorships. Yet all in all, democratic revolution eventually triumphed, based on the sovereignty of the nation, equality of citizens under the law and the extension of the political corps by suffrage — principles established in 1789. This book recounts that extraordinary and contradictory evolution. It is based on a hundred founding texts which — under the titles of manifesto, charter, declaration, address, instruction, decree, catechism, call, programme, report or merely speech— bear witness to each moment of the historic process and characterize a philosophy, a man, or an ideological, political or social movement claiming to be avant-garde. They are important for two reasons: they are both a pledge and the indispensable documentary proof of all reflection; often, they sparked off the combat or inspired people to take action. The mighty pen... Analysed by historians, philosophers, sociologists or political scientists, these hundred texts are vital testimonies of movements in society. Like so many diffusers of fertile ideas, they offer a panorama of the summits, plains and abysses wherein the history of the last two centuries was saved or perished. This corpus constitutes an essential reference for a wide public but especially for teachers, researchers and students, who until now lacked such a document.
- Dimensions : 160x240x57
- ISBN : 9782204098014
- Poids : 1920 grammes
Avec la collaboration de : André Senik, Antonio Elorza, Bernard Bruneteau, Christine Sourgins, Erik Pesenti-Rossi, Florin Aftalion, Gérard Grunberg, Guillaume Bernard, Jean Baudouin, Jean Chaunu, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Marc Joubert, Jean-Pierre Deschodt, Ladan Borouman, Lucien Jaume, Pascal Hintermeyer, Patrick Moreau, Stéphane Courtois, Stéphane François, Thomas Siret, Yolène Dilas-Rocherieux
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