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Minerva's Message : Stabilizing the French Revolution.
Title:
Minerva's Message : Stabilizing the French Revolution.
Author:
Staum, Martin S.
ISBN:
9780773566248
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (359 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- 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 -- Appendix 1 Joseph Lakanal's List of Nominees for the Class of Moral and Political Sciences -- Appendix 2 Members and Associates of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences -- Appendix 3 The National Institute after the Reorganization of 1803 -- Appendix 4 Members of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences in the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1832 -- Appendix 5 Number of Memoirs Read before the Class of Moral and Political Sciences and Published in Its Collection -- Appendix 6 Prize Contests of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
During the French Revolution the French National Institute, including the Class of Moral and Political Sciences (CMPS), was established to replace the abolished Ancien Régime academies. In Minerva's Message Martin Staum explores how what began as the institutionalization of Enlightenment social science culture became a tool to end revolutionary turmoil and establish social order.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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