Human Nature and the French Revolution
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Human Nature and the French Revolution

From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code

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Human Nature and the French Revolution

From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code

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What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier Martin came to realize that there is no unified view of man and that, alongside the "official" revolutionary discourse, very divergent views can be traced in a variety of sources from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code. Michelet's phrases, "Know men in order to act upon them" sums up the problem that Martin's study constantly seeks to elucidate and illustrate: it reveals the prevailing tendency to see men as passive, giving legislators and medical people alike free rein to manipulate them at will. His analysis impels the reader to revaluate the Enlightenment concept of humanism. By drawing on a variety of sources, the author shows how the anthropology of Enlightenment and revolutionary France often conflicts with concurrent discourses.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2001
ISBN
9781782381709
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Notes on Translation
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Chapter 1. Human Nature
  9. Chapter 2. Helveticus And d'Holbach
  10. Chapter 3. Voltaire
  11. Chapter 4. Rosseau
  12. Chapter 5. Pedagogy and Politics
  13. Chapter 6. Mirabeau and Sieyes
  14. Chapter 7. The Audacity of the Philanthropists
  15. Chapter 8. Robespierre
  16. Chapter 9. Making An Impression
  17. Chapter 10. Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy
  18. Chapter 11. La Revelliere-Lepeaux and Leclerc
  19. Chapter 12. Supervised Sovereignity
  20. Chapter 13. Madame de Stael and Constant
  21. Chapter 14. Bonaparte: Ideologue?
  22. Chapter 15. The Napoleonic Code
  23. Conclusion
  24. Select Bibliogrpahy
  25. Index