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Minerva's message : stabilizing the French Revolution /

During the French Revolution the French National Institute, including the Class of Moral and Political Sciences (CMPS), was established to replace the abolished Ancien Regime academies. In Minerva's Message Martin Staum explores how what began as the institutionalization of Enlightenment social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staum, Martin S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] ; Buffalo, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Intellectuals, Revolution, and the Social Sciences
  • 2. Enlightenment Social Science Models
  • 3. The Institute Intellectuals: Change and Continuity
  • 4. Advice to Government and Prize Contests
  • 5. The Public Image of the Institute and the Decline of Encyclopedism
  • 6. Indelible Temperament and Condillac's Uncertain Legacy
  • 7. A Science of Morality
  • 8. Philosophical History and Political Discord
  • 9. Human Geography: Correlating Climate, Culture, and Civilization
  • 10. Rights, Utility, and Political Institutions
  • 11. Towards the Political Economy of Commercial Society
  • 12. Suppression and Resurrection of an Academy
  • App. 1. Joseph Lakanal's List of Nominees for the Class of Moral and Political Sciences
  • App. 2. Members and Associates of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences
  • App. 3. The National Institute after the Reorganization of 1803.