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The Revolution was seen to promise the spread of enlightenment consequent to the conquest of power by knowledge. In view of this assertion, it is important to understand what exactly was meant by ‘enlightenment’, both in terms of its opposition to the religious imaginary, and its implications for the constitution of the post-revolutionary order.
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Constantin-François Chasseboeuf Volney, Les ruines, our méditation sur les révolutions des empires, et La loi naturelle (Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1979).
Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes, pensées, caractères et anecdotes (Paris: Granier-Flammarion, 1968) p. 162.
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Singer, B.C.J. (1986). Volney’s Ruines: a Discursus on Religion and Enlightenment. In: Society, Theory and the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18361-6_3
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