Am 28. Oktober spricht Prof. Dr. Ran Halévy vom CNRS/EHESS Paris am Centre Marc Bloch. Thema des Vortrags ist „Hate and the Revolutionary Spirit“. The « revolutionary spirit » is a notion both familiar and elusive, often used but rarely defined. Ran Halévi attempts to clarify its tenor, characterize its properties, and locate its intellectual and ideological roots. What we call “the revolutionary spirit” is a mélange of theoretical premises, political maxims, polemical claims, passions, aspirations, and indeed hate. The lecture will focus on the moment of its original “crystallization”: 1789. Ran Halévi is a political historian, Directeur de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), and a professor at the Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron, EHESS in Paris. Most of his work focuses on the Old Regime and the French Revolution. He is the co-editor of the Pléiade volume on the Orators of the French Revolution, the author of books on the origins of democratic sociability in eighteenth century France (1984), on the first French revolutionary Constitution (1996), on François Furet (2007), and of numerous articles on Louis XIV’s political thought, political moderation under the absolute monarchy, on the politics of honor, the genesis of constituant power, and, more recently, on Israeli democracy.