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EAN : 9782707175854
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 360
Size : 155 x 240 mm
LIBERTY REEXAMINED

Collection : Sciences humaines
Release date : 21/01/2016
Using sources such as political texts, archives, novels, poetry and paintings, Michèle Riot-Sarcey brings back to life the ideas of liberty that emerged from workers’ actions and the social revolutions of 19th-century France.
Her book is directly inspired by the theories of Walter Benjamin, and other great philosophers such as Foucault,...
Using sources such as political texts, archives, novels, poetry and paintings, Michèle Riot-Sarcey brings back to life the ideas of liberty that emerged from workers’ actions and the social revolutions of 19th-century France.
Her book is directly inspired by the theories of Walter Benjamin, and other great philosophers such as Foucault, Arendt and Castoriadis. The work has two objectives: to present an alternative view of the working classes’ fight for liberty in the 19th century, and to consider how their history has been both created and submerged.
This daring, remarkably well documented account is fascinating. It demonstrates the pertinence of Walter Benjamin’s thoughts on the need to blow historical continuity to pieces.
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EAN : 9782707175854
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 360
Size : 155 x 240 mm
La Découverte