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Hannah Arendt The French Revolution

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Hannah Arendt, political theorist and philosopher, interprets revolutionary experience as a kind of restoration, whereby insurgent attempts are made to restore liberties and privileges that were lost as a result of the government’s temporary lapse into despotism. Taking a more empirical stance, Tocqueville, French political scientist and historian, defines revolution as an overthrow of the legally constituted elite, which then initiates a period of intense social, political, and economic change. Said Amir Arjomand, political scientist argues that the revolution is the collapse of the political order and its replacement by a new one. In short, revolution is more or less, a social and political movement or movements that result in change of an
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