Assignment task:
"Power represses, but power produces." How would you relate this aphorism to the role that violent and non-violent social or political activities played In the Age of Enlightenment? Reform, revolutions, and counter-revolutionary activity that took place on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean from the 1700s through the early 1800s?
Which your essay should be drawn:
a. Michel Foucault, "The Body of the Condemned," in Discipline and Punish
b. Michael Meranze, "A Criminal Is Being Beaten"
c. Hunt and Censer, assigned online chapters (6 & 7) from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
d. Dubois and Garrigus, Part I of Slave Revolution in the Caribbean
e. The Pillnitz Declaration (in-class primary source)
f. In-class documents by Robespierre
g. Primary source documents included in Part 2 of the Dubois and Garrigus books (a few of which we've looked at together in class)
h. In-class lecture on "The Complex Legacy of the Enlightenment"
i. In-class lecture on "Causes of the French Revolution"