Libertà e rivoluzione nel XIX secolo. Il movimento della storia secondo Michèle Riot-Sarcey

Autori: Michèle Riot-Sarcey, Marco Fioravanti, Francesco Benigno, E. Igor Mineo
In: Storica. 69 • anno XXIII, 2017
doi:10.23744/1789
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Abstract

This forum discusses a book that identifies, in its very subtitle, an alternative history in opposition to the dominant «storytelling» on the French nineteenth century. The book’s focus is on figures such as the vanquished, the anonymous, the forgotten of official history, women, colonial subjects, slaves, workers, and the proto-proletariat organized in the Parisian sections of 1789. The actual proletariat would find its expression in the 1848 Ateliers Nationaux of the workers, especially in Paris and in large urban centers, to which the Author dedicates rich and passionate pages. At the core of the volume, therefore, there is the people and its associations, which claim their rights to emancipation and democratic participation. Re-thinking «the people» leads, for the Author, to a new form of history-writing.

Parole chiave: Popolo; Associazioni; Rivoluzione; Utopia; Walter Benjamin.

Keywords: People; Associations; Revolution; Utopia; Walter Benjamin.