One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the...
One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact was to abandon...
The opposition between 'religion' and 'modernity' has long held the status of a self-evident truth. Recently, however, there has been a growing realization that religion has not died out and may be more compatible with modern society than previously assumed.This development is particularly striking in France where laicite has long been the official doctrine.
How did religion become opposed to the secular and modern? If distinctions between sacred and secular are less adequate than commonly believed, how do these two categories interact?Addressing these questions, this book explores...
The opposition between 'religion' and 'modernity' has long held the status of a self-evident truth. Recently, however, there has been a growing rea...
