Reviews for The Regionalist Movement in France 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought

The average rating for The Regionalist Movement in France 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-11 00:00:00 Natalie Ross Sala-Molins's book is a powerful polemic against French Revolution and Enlightenment fever, which took place during 1989-two hundred years anniversary of French Revolution in France. Book is at its best when it shows how the celebrated philosophes, such as Montesquieu or Condorcet were soft on the institution of slavery and in fact were working for companies in the slave trade business. But in its condemnation of slavery, book takes rather an anachronistic tone. Moral condemnation of slavery and silence of philosophes about it is surely not an issue. But arguably Sala-Molins overlooks Marx's well-known dictum: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please...the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living." His moralist attack on Enlightenment philosophers is understandable but occasionally becomes ahistorical.Instead of moralism, I wish he dwell more on the political-economy of slave economy and its role in the formation of pre-industrialist capitalism. I guess this is where historical materialism makes real difference.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-26 00:00:00 Kim Hannigan this book sucks. 19 yrs old and obsessed with the french new wave, i took a course in french history and was given this book. it made me wanna stab myself in the face. the gothfrog wrote a funny review of this one before a hissy fit of post-menstrual rage made him destroy his old account. re-post that shit, bitch.