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Sharing Freedom : Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France, Hardback Book

Sharing Freedom : Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France Hardback

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The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism they adopted has often been faulted for being exclusionary – of women, foreigners, and religious and ethnic minorities.

Can republicanism be an attractive alternative to liberalism, communism, and communitarianism, or is it fundamentally flawed?

Sharing Freedom traces the development of republicanism from an older elitist theory of freedom into an inclusive theory of emancipation during the French Revolution.

It uncovers the theoretical innovations of Rousseau and of revolutionaries such as Sieyès, Robespierre, Condorcet, and Grouchy.

We learn how they struggled to adapt republicanism to the new circumstances of a large and diverse France, full of poor and dependent individuals with little education or experience of freedom.

Analysing the argumentative logic that led republicans to justify the exclusion of many, this book renews the republican tradition and connects it with the enduring issues of colonialism, immigration, slavery, poverty and gender.

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