| Titre | Utopie romantique et Révolution française | |
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| Auteur | Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 94, 4e trimestre 1989 Dissonances dans la Révolution | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dissonances dans la Révolution |
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| Page | 71-81 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy, Romantic Utopia and the trench revolution
The article takes as its point of departure the conception that Romanticism is a critique of the modem world and its bourgeois civilization in the name of values from a pre-modern, pre-capitalist past. Among the Romantics one can find both partisans and adversaries of the French Revolution. In the camp of the partisans there exists an apparently paradoxical current ; politically moderate, but socially radical. Politically, it rejects the « excesses » of the Revolution, its Terror and authoritarianism. Socially, it is more advanced than the Jacobins in that it aspires to a Utopian socialism based on a community of land and goods, Rousseauist in inspiration, it dreams of the return to a Golden Age. The character of Gauvain in Hugo's novel Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three), could be seen as its « ideal-typical » figure. Among the political and literary groups that belong to such a configuration, are : the « Social Circle », certain of the « red priests », the French Rousseauists Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Restif de la Bretonne, and the English Romantics Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, Blake. The article develops three examples in detail : Nicolas de Bonneville of the « Sodal Circle », Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Coleridge. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1989_num_94_4_2447 |
