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In the preceding discussion of the representation of monarchy within the ancien régime and its collapse during the Revolution, I have been trying to bring out a more general point concerning the nature of power. The hope has been that this discussion will have demonstrated that power cannot be separated from its representation, and that representation is intimately related to the acquisition of visibility by the social body.
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Claude Lefort, ‘Penser la RĂ©volution dans la RĂ©vollution française’, Annales, Ă©conomies, sociĂ©tĂ©s et civilisations, 35 (Mar.–Apr. 1980) p. 336.
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Singer, B.C.J. (1986). A Theoretical Interlude: Power and the Imaginary. In: Society, Theory and the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18361-6_7
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