The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern UniversalismUniversity of California Press, 28 մրտ, 2005 թ. - 354 էջ In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights. In this beautifully written biography, based on newly discovered and previously overlooked material, we gain access for the first time to the full complexity of Grégoire's intellectual and political universe as well as the compelling nature of his persona. His life offers an extraordinary vantage from which to view large issues in European and world history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides provocative insights into many of the prevailing tensions, ideals, and paradoxes of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Grégoire's idea of "regeneration," that people could literally be made anew, Sepinwall argues that revolutionary universalism was more complicated than it appeared. Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest. |
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The Bon Cure of Embermenil | 35 |
A Physical Moral and Political Regeneration of the Jews | 56 |
Introduction to Part Two | 81 |
Creating a French Nation | 89 |
A Religious Revolution? Regeneration Transformed | 109 |
Overcoming the Terror Rebuilding the Empire | 137 |
Introduction to Part Three | 159 |
Exporting the Revolution The Colonial Laboratory in Haiti | 181 |
Christian Apologetics and the Universal Human Family | 199 |
Icon of Universalism Gregoires Life after Death | 217 |
Acknowledgments | 239 |
Appendix | 243 |
Notes | 245 |
Selected Bibliography | 309 |
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The Joys and Frustrations of the Atlantic Republican Network Gregoire and the Americas | 167 |
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Էջ 1 - No great man lives in vain. The History of the world is but the Biography of great men.
Էջ 11 - In affirming that it was the Enlightenment that produced the Revolution, the classical interpretation perhaps inverses logical order: should we not consider instead that it was the Revolution that invented the Enlightenment by attempting to root its legitimacy in a corpus of texts and founding authors reconciled and united, beyond their extreme differences, by their preparation of a rupture with the old...