Shaping the Modern Discourse on Liberty: French Intellectual Debates from Revolution to Dreyfus

• Authors: Anna Budzanowska , Tomasz Pietrzykowski

Abstracts

EN

The age of intellectual debates in France between the Revolution in 1789 and the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of the centuries is one of the key sources that enable the understanding of the modern political culture. It concerns, in particular, the modern concept of liberty that became one of the defining values shaping the European political discourse. Thus, the post-revolutionary France remains an extremely valuable source of inspiration when revisiting the essence of many contemporary debates in political philosophy and public discourse. Most of the ideas and arguments in circulation today echo the debates over the liberty, reason, and society that dominated the intellectual climate of that period in the French political history or, at least, heavily depend on the foundational ideas formulated then and there. Thus, they are worth reconsidering.

Keywords

EN

liberty; freedom; revolution; republicanism; conservatism; society

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych - Centre for Philosophical Research
• Journal: Avant
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 43-57

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Anna Budzanowska

• Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

author

Tomasz Pietrzykowski

• University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.26913/avant.2019.01.04

Biblioteka Nauki

2200443