First Performances — Staging Memories of the French February Revolution

Spang, Rebecca L.

doi:10.1057/9781403919595_9

1848 — A European Revolution? 2000

DOI: 10.1057/9781403919595_9

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First Performances — Staging Memories of the French February Revolution

Rebecca L. Spang¹

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“… 1 On Nora’s neglect of the 1848 Revolution see Spang (2000). As further evidence of the pervasiveness of this view that the events of 1848 were historically problematic, Colton and Palmer refer to them in their widely read overview of European history as ‘a revolution that misfired’ (1971: 510–11). …”

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Eighteen Forty-Eight, or the History of Death

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2012

French Cultural Studies

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This article offers a metahistorical examination of the concept of history through readings of contemporary and subsequent accounts of the 1848 Revolution in France. The year 1848 has persistently thrown the category of history into question -not historical events, but the very notion of history itself. I would argue, however, that the Revolution's historical significance lies, paradoxically, in the very possibility that it was not a historical event, or, more precisely, in the ambiguity of its historical status. Through readings of contemporary accounts of the February 1848 events in Paris and theoretical texts by Kant, Michelet, Marx and Derrida, this article argues that the possibility of historical meaning is conceptually rooted in the finitude of human mortality. This finitude -and its attendant meanings -are, however, troubled by the notion of ghosts and the troubling materiality of corpses, both of which played important psychological roles in reactions to the 1848 Revolution in Paris.

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