The Plebeian Experience : : A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom / / Martin Breaugh.

How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political su...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: What is "The Plebs"?
  • 1. Historical Genesis of the Plebeian Principle
  • 2. Philosophical Genesis of the Plebeian Principle
  • Part II: The Question of the Forms of Political Organization
  • Prologue: On the Dominant Political Configuration of Modernity
  • 3. Sectional Societies and the Sans-Culottes of Paris
  • 4. The London Corresponding Society and the English Jacobins
  • 5. The Paris Commune of 1871 and the Communards
  • Part III: The Nature of the Human Bond
  • Prologue: Social Bond, Political Bond, and Modernity
  • 6. The Sans-Culottes: A Political Bond of Fraternity
  • 7. The English Jacobins: A Political Bond of Plurality
  • 8. The Communards: A Political Bond of Association
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index