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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Antoine de Baecque; Michel Vovelle; Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris). |
OCLC Number: | 490740202 |
Description: | 3 microfiches. ; 11 cm. |
Responsibility: | ANTOINE DE BAECQUE ; SOUS LA DIRECTION DE MICHEL VOVELLE. |
Abstract:
THERE ARE THREE PARTS IN THE STUDY: CORPORAL REPRESENTATION AS A PASSAGE FROM SOVEREIGNTY, AS THE FICTION OF REVOLUTION, AND AS ITS RITUAL. THROUGH THE VISIONS OF THE POLITICAL BODY, FRENCH REVOLUTIONARIES PASSED FROM A POLITICAL REGILE TO AN OTHER (FROM THE BOURBON MONARCHY TO THE REPUBLIC), TOLD THEMSELVES THEIR OWN ADVENTURE (THEY USED POLITICS AS A FICTION), AND PERFORMED THEIR OWN PLAY ON THE REVOLUTIONARY STADGE. THROUGH THE VARIOUS REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BODY, IT'S A STORY OF THE REVOLUTION WE WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST: A PASSAGE FROM THE KING'S BODY TO THE GREAT BODY OF THE CITIZENS, A TALE MADE LIVELY AS PROPPED BY EMBODED IDEAS, AND THE CREATION OF A TRANSPARENT POLITICAL SPACE, WHICH, IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS, IMPOSED ITSELF AS THE STADGE OF MODERN DEMOCRATY.
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