legacy of Enlightenment as the ‘modern’ to which postmodernity wishes to oppose itself –why little Enlightenment history is written by postmodern historians
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there will no longer be ‘The Enlightenment,’ a universal phenomenon with a single history to be either celebrated or condemned, but a family of discourses arising about the same time in a number of European cultures
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the ‘philosophes undoubtedly provided the ideas’
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sees the Terror as, in part, a consequence of their weakness. The Jacobins had only shaky legitimacy
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Revolutionary government had as its inevitable accompaniment the Terror
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many today, conditioned by historicist ways of thought and by the multiple "terrors " of a revolutionary world, tend to visualize terror as an inevitable vehicle of political and social development
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‘a phenomenon as awful and irreversible as the first nuclear explosion, and all history has been permanently changed by it’
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indictment of tyranny and injustice – liberty, equality, fraternity
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‘amazement at how many such issues French legislators felt they must publicly discuss, debate, and decide’
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‘Slavery in the colonies seemed peripheral to the urgent political and constitutional issues at home’
