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Fanatismo Ideológico: As Origens dos Cultos Revolucionários
Quem acompanha o noticiário político e cultural observa a imensa variabilidade de formas com que o movimento revolucionário se faz presente. Embora haja, por exemplo, uma relação de identidade entre os antigos trabalhistas e os novos progressistas, o cerne dos respectivos discursos é bem diferente. Se os revolucionários de ontem falavam em neoliberalismo, reforma agrária, distribuição de renda e direitos do trabalhador, os de hoje concentram-se em questões de divisões identitárias: raciais e de gênero. Os de ontem combatiam intolerâncias, corrupção e perseguições políticas; os de hoje não se envergonham de fechar os olhos para os escândalos, se for para defender sua causa ideológica. Por maiores que sejam as diferenças de conteúdo discursivo entre o revolucionário do passado que combatia o capitalismo com um fuzil e aquele que combate o machismo com um iPhone, a forma do culto que um e outro praticam é exatamente a mesma. Quais são as crenças e práticas comuns dos revolucionários? Neste clássico, publicado na França em 1904 e pela primeira vez no Brasil, o historiador Albert Mathiez apresenta um profundo estudo sobre o fanatismo político, que foi a base para sua tese de Mestrado na Universidade de Sorbonne. Ao examinar os cultos das Revoluções Francesa e Bolchevique, sua obra consegue lançar luz sobre outras revoluções e também a política contemporânea. Este livro funciona como uma lanterna na selva escura. Ferramenta indispensável para quem deseja compreender a era em que vive, saber do que fala e agir com propriedade. Depois de lê-lo, você não verá o mundo com os mesmos olhos.
176 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 2012
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Albert Mathiez
59 books2 followersAlbert-Xavier-Émile Mathiez was a French historian, best known for his Marxist interpretation of the Great French Revolution.
He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1894, by which time he had already displayed a strong anti-clerical bias. After graduation, he passed the aggregation in history and after doing his military service entered the teaching profession. He taught at a variety of local lycèes until he completed his doctorate which he wrote under the direction of François Victor Alphonse Aulard, then the leading historian of the Revolution, who admired Georges Danton.
Mathiez was greatly influenced by Jean Jaurès, who propounded a more radical economic and social interpretation. At first a good friend of Aulard, he broke with his mentor in 1907, founding his own society, the Société des études robespierristes, with its journal, the Annales révolutionnaires. He also moved up from the lycée to the university level, teaching at Besançon and Dijon.
He made extensive use of archival documents in producing his numerous publications. Initially he studied the political and religious achievements of the Revolution and, after the First World War, its economic and social consequences emphasized class conflict. He argued that 1789 pitted the bourgeoisie against the aristocracy and then the Revolution pitted the bourgeoisie against the sans-culottes, who were a proletariat-in-the-making.
Mathiez greatly influenced Georges Lefebvre and Albert Soboul in forming what came to be known as the orthodox Marxist interpretation of the Revolution. Mathiez admired Maximilien Robespierre, praised the Reign of Terror and did not extend complete sympathy to the struggle of the proletariat.
A commemorative plaque in his likeness is still to this day in the amphitheater of the Sorbonne.
He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1894, by which time he had already displayed a strong anti-clerical bias. After graduation, he passed the aggregation in history and after doing his military service entered the teaching profession. He taught at a variety of local lycèes until he completed his doctorate which he wrote under the direction of François Victor Alphonse Aulard, then the leading historian of the Revolution, who admired Georges Danton.
Mathiez was greatly influenced by Jean Jaurès, who propounded a more radical economic and social interpretation. At first a good friend of Aulard, he broke with his mentor in 1907, founding his own society, the Société des études robespierristes, with its journal, the Annales révolutionnaires. He also moved up from the lycée to the university level, teaching at Besançon and Dijon.
He made extensive use of archival documents in producing his numerous publications. Initially he studied the political and religious achievements of the Revolution and, after the First World War, its economic and social consequences emphasized class conflict. He argued that 1789 pitted the bourgeoisie against the aristocracy and then the Revolution pitted the bourgeoisie against the sans-culottes, who were a proletariat-in-the-making.
Mathiez greatly influenced Georges Lefebvre and Albert Soboul in forming what came to be known as the orthodox Marxist interpretation of the Revolution. Mathiez admired Maximilien Robespierre, praised the Reign of Terror and did not extend complete sympathy to the struggle of the proletariat.
A commemorative plaque in his likeness is still to this day in the amphitheater of the Sorbonne.
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February 21, 2023
Trata-se de um estudo de caso, publicado em 1904, sobre o fanatismo ideológico da Revolução Francesa que deu origem a uma "religião civil" secularista, anticlerical e estatista.
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