Allégorie La Révolution était une jeune fille flamboyante et rebelle Elle avait ses outrances, son rouge à lèvres carmin, carnassier, comme taché du sang parfois versé, Son oeil charbonneux de la suie des barricades, Elle dansait face à la vieillesse du… Continue Reading
Allegory The Revolution was a young woman, flamboyant and rebellious She wore her excesses, her carmine lipstick, carnivorous, as if stained by the blood sometimes shed, Her charcoal eyes from the soot of the barricades, She danced before the old… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I had originally suggested, in my previous post, that it was largely the modern historians who spoiled the potential of revolutionary action by inventing “the modern concept of revolution”—twined with its inherent exhaustion or inevitable failure,… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco I do have a few questions about how a movement becomes a revolution. I will start this line of questioning with one of the lost meanings of the word revolution —revolution as the process of soul-transmigration.… Continue Reading
By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I begin with the Rohingyas being plowed down mercilessly in Burma. We are of course asking in the short range for a safe zone protected by UN peacekeeping forces. But the real requirement is a revolution… Continue Reading
By Simona Forti Instead of asking myself, reformulating the famous title of a chapter in On Revolution[1], which are the lost treasures of the Modern Revolutionary Tradition, I will start from the question: “Which are, if there are, the hidden… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar Prepared for the Keynote Lecture, International Society for Intellectual History Conference: “Rethinking Europe in Intellectual History,” University of Crete, Rethymnon, 3 May 2016; revised with some changes and a new conclusion on May 6 at the MEGARON… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “In politics, words and their usage are more important than any other weapon.” — Reinhart Koselleck, “Historical Criteria of the Modern Concept of Revolution,” 1968. Is it possible to think through the modern concept of “revolution”… Continue Reading