Skip to main content
Princeton Mobile homeCourses home
Detail

Political Theory of French Revolution

POL 588

1252
Info tab content
The objective of this course is to understand the political theories at the core of the French Revolution - both the ideas that set it in motion, and the novel thinking about democracy, equality, liberty, and rights that emerged from it. To this end we read a diverse range of texts. We discuss: the theories that flourished in the decades before the revolution and that laid the foundations for it; texts from the major thinkers and actors of the revolutionary period; and responses to the Revolution from liberal and non-liberal thinkers in the nineteenth century. All texts are available in English translation.
Instructors tab content
Sections tab content

Section S01