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Defining itself in terms of enlightenment, the Revolution saw its project as the installment of knowledge in power. But even as the Revolution sought to have knowledge and power coincide, secularization involved their separation in a sense and to a degree that was entirely without precendent.
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See Bronislaw Baczko, ‘Rousseau et la marginalité sociale’, Libre, no. 5 (1979).
Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961)
cited in Frank and Fritzie Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979) p. 517.
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Singer, B.C.J. (1986). Introduction: Knowledge without Power. In: Society, Theory and the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18361-6_5
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