TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burstin,Haïm
TI  - A New Feeling in Times of Revolution: The “ivresse de la liberté”
PY  - 2024///.
							
N1  - 3
N2  - The historiography of the French Revolution has traditionally assigned an ambiguous, even a contradictory role to the emotions; hence a certain delay in conceptualizing the proper place of the emotional system in times of revolution, and a certain reluctance by historians to incorporate fully this dimension into their current approach. The aim of this article is to return to this question by analyzing a specific feeling widespread at the time, a sentiment contemporaries called the “l’ivresse de la liberté” − a kind of collective euphoria affecting the social body linked to the first experience of a general political participation. This feeling became a powerful behavioral force with remarkable consequences for collective attitudes, and directly intervened in politics, closely conditioning the exercise of citizenship
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-annales-historiques-de-la-revolution-francaise-2024-1-page-25?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -