Condorcet and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780521841399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str.

David Williams

Opis

David Williams explores the complex links between Condorcet as visionary ideologist and pragmatic legislator, and between his concept of modernity and the management of change. The Marquis de Condorcet was one of the few Enlightenment thinkers to witness and participate in the French Revolution. Based on an extensive array of printed and original manuscript sources, Williams' analysis of Condorcet's politics will be a major contribution to Enlightenment studies.

Recenzje

"A great virtue of David William's account of Condorcet is that he brings clearly into focus both hsi free-trade economic theories and his political thought (including his relationship with Thomas Jefferson and other American founding fathers). These aspects have in the past often been dealth with in isolation." - Jonathan israel, Institute for Advanced Study The Historian

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; References and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Profile of a political life; 2. Human nature and human rights; 3. The civil order; 4. Managing enlightenment; 5. Reform and the moral order; 6. New constructions of equality; 7. Justice and the law; 8. Representative government; 9. The economic order; 10. Managing the Revolution; Conclusion: the human odyssey; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.