BRIAN C. J. SINGER is a Lecturer in Social Science at York University, Ontario, and a Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

• Acknowledgements - Introduction: History and the Revolutionary Imaginary - PART 1 REVOLUTION AND KNOWLEDGE - Secularization and Representation: The Discovery of Society - Volney's Ruines: A Discursus on Religion and Enlightenment - Science, Ideology and Social Transparency - PART 2 REVOLUTION AND POWER - Introduction: Knowledge without Power? - The Problematization of Power - A Theoretical Interlude: Power and the Imaginary - Despotism and Democracy: State and Society - PART 3 DESIGNATING THE NATION - The Abbi Sieyhs and the Social Contract: The Nation behind the Polity - Saint-Just against the Social Contract: Society without a Polity - PART 4 CONSTRUCTING THE STATE - The Problem of Political Representation - Power and Constitution: Civil vs Political Society - Power and Will: Power Ascending - Power and Action: Power Descending - The Terror - Afterword - Endnotes - Index

BRIAN C. J. SINGER is a Lecturer in Social Science at York University, Ontario, and a Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

• Acknowledgements - Introduction: History and the Revolutionary Imaginary - PART 1 REVOLUTION AND KNOWLEDGE - Secularization and Representation: The Discovery of Society - Volney's Ruines: A Discursus on Religion and Enlightenment - Science, Ideology and Social Transparency - PART 2 REVOLUTION AND POWER - Introduction: Knowledge without Power? - The Problematization of Power - A Theoretical Interlude: Power and the Imaginary - Despotism and Democracy: State and Society - PART 3 DESIGNATING THE NATION - The Abbi Sieyhs and the Social Contract: The Nation behind the Polity - Saint-Just against the Social Contract: Society without a Polity - PART 4 CONSTRUCTING THE STATE - The Problem of Political Representation - Power and Constitution: Civil vs Political Society - Power and Will: Power Ascending - Power and Action: Power Descending - The Terror - Afterword - Endnotes - Index

BRIAN C. J. SINGER is a Lecturer in Social Science at York University, Ontario, and a Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

• Acknowledgements - Introduction: History and the Revolutionary Imaginary - PART 1 REVOLUTION AND KNOWLEDGE - Secularization and Representation: The Discovery of Society - Volney's Ruines: A Discursus on Religion and Enlightenment - Science, Ideology and Social Transparency - PART 2 REVOLUTION AND POWER - Introduction: Knowledge without Power? - The Problematization of Power - A Theoretical Interlude: Power and the Imaginary - Despotism and Democracy: State and Society - PART 3 DESIGNATING THE NATION - The Abbi Sieyhs and the Social Contract: The Nation behind the Polity - Saint-Just against the Social Contract: Society without a Polity - PART 4 CONSTRUCTING THE STATE - The Problem of Political Representation - Power and Constitution: Civil vs Political Society - Power and Will: Power Ascending - Power and Action: Power Descending - The Terror - Afterword - Endnotes - Index