The French Revolution and Its Legacy

This book examines the French revolution from an anthropological perspective, eschewing an analysis in terms of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actors, or progressive and non-progressive forces, and adopting instead the frame of liminality.

This book offers an interpretation of the French revolution and modern democracy, claiming that the revolution gave rise to a democratic power that is liminal by nature, and therefore unlimited, unaccountable on principle, and the basis for a state religion of continuous transformation. It demonstrates these claims by focusing on the universally proclaimed but little understood sacred motto liberté, egalité, fraternité, and on the sacrifice and role of Louis XVI in the revolution. Analysing the revolutionary process by which representative democratic government took the shape of political metamorphosis, the book shows that modern democracy does not represent the people but refers to the representation of representation and the existential condition of permanent displacement. The present study will appeal to scholars from across the social, political and human sciences with an interest in the French revolution, modern democracy and the modern world, contemporary politics and the history of art.

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