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Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
- ISBN-10:
- 0691124981
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691124988
- Pub. Date:
- 09/14/2008
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0691124981
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691124988
- Pub. Date:
- 09/14/2008
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780691124988 |
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Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
Publication date: | 09/14/2008 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 512 |
Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.60(d) |
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viiAcknowledgements ixAbbreviations and a Note on Translations xi
Chapter 1: Introduction: "One of the Most Interesting Pairs of Breeches Recorded in Modern History" 1
Chapter 2: An Ingenious Emblem 57New Year's Gifts and an Eighteenth-Century French Joke 57Fashion's Empire: The Moral Foundations of Salon Society 77A "Poor Devil": The Short, Unhappy Life of Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert 101Mercier and Rousseau: Vitalist and Contractual Conceptions of Political Society 110
Chapter 3: Diogenes and Rousseau: Music, Morality, and Society 134Diogenes and the Ambiguities of Cynic Philosophy 134Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of Public Opinion 147Rousseau and His Cynic Critics 164John Brown and the Progress of Civilisation 178"That Subtle Diogenes": Immanuel Kant and Rousseau's Dilemmas 195
Chapter 4: Property, Equality, and the Passions in Eighteenth-Century French Thought 202Reform, Revolution, and the Problem of State Power 202Property and the Limits of State Power 221Physiocracy, Reform, and the Fruits of the Tree of Life 248John Law's Legacy and the Aftermath of Physiocracy 260Dominique-Joseph Garat, the Modern Idea of Happiness, and the Dilemmas of Reform 273
Chapter 5: The Entitlements of Merit 283Visions of Patriotism 283The Army and Its Problems in the Eighteenth Century 288Constitutional Government, Taxation, and Equality 296Political Liberty, Public Finance, and Public Worship 305Etienne Clavière, Law's System, and French Liberty 315Feuillants and Brissotins 324Antoine-Joseph Gorsas and the Politics of Revolutionary Satire 338
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Democracy and Terror 362Politics and History in Jacobin Thought 362Rousseau and Revolution 367Mably, Rousseau, and Robespierre 372
Epilogue 407Bibliography 425Index 475
What People are Saying About This
A pathbreaking account of the emergence of the concept of republican citizenship in the eighteenth century, Michael Sonenscher's Sans-Culottes is also one of the most ambitious, original, and satisfying accounts of the eighteenth-century resonance of Rousseau's arguments regarding human nature, culture, and politics that I have encountered.
E. J. Hundert, professor emeritus of history, University of British Columbia
With this book, Michael Sonenscher establishes himself as one of the most significant authors in the world today writing on the French Revolution. Focusing at the outset on the apparently unpromising question of how the revolutionary sans-culottes got their name, Sonenscher takes his readers on an extraordinary journey of discovery to the heart of the French Enlightenment and revolutionary politics. A brilliant tour de force, based on a dazzling command of eighteenth-century political and economic writing and razor-sharp analytical skills, this book will be required reading for any scholar or student interested in the origins and outcomes of the revolution.
Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London
Drawing on a dazzling array of texts--from the most well known to the totally arcane--Michael Sonenscher reveals that the sans-culottes of revolutionary France were the cultural offspring of a deep and densely argued eighteenth-century philosophical divide. The story is utterly fascinating and will come as a surprise, especially to social historians. There are few scholars working today who can rival the breadth or depth of Sonenscher's command of eighteenth-century European intellectual culture.
Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley
"With deftness, wit, and great erudition, Michael Sonenscher traces the complex and unexpected pre-Jacobin history of the phrase 'sans culottes' to its origins in the rivalries and concerns of the Parisian salons. This probing history brings to life the patronesses, philosophers, wits, and hacks of the ancien régime and illuminates the contending uses of ancient philosophy and visions of society and personal virtue that circulated among them. The analyses of competing Ciceronian and Cynical views of fashion, and of the gulfs between Rousseau and his self-designated acolytes, are particularly powerful. This book will be sure to transform irrevocably our understanding of the notorious emblem of Jacobinism."—Jennifer Pitts, author of A Turn to Empire"With this book, Michael Sonenscher establishes himself as one of the most significant authors in the world today writing on the French Revolution. Focusing at the outset on the apparently unpromising question of how the revolutionary sans-culottes got their name, Sonenscher takes his readers on an extraordinary journey of discovery to the heart of the French Enlightenment and revolutionary politics. A brilliant tour de force, based on a dazzling command of eighteenth-century political and economic writing and razor-sharp analytical skills, this book will be required reading for any scholar or student interested in the origins and outcomes of the revolution."—Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London"A pathbreaking account of the emergence of the concept of republican citizenship in the eighteenth century, Michael Sonenscher's Sans-Culottes is also one of the most ambitious, original, and satisfying accounts of the eighteenth-century resonance of Rousseau's arguments regarding human nature, culture, and politics that I have encountered."—E. J. Hundert, professor emeritus of history, University of British Columbia"Drawing on a dazzling array of texts—from the most well known to the totally arcane—Michael Sonenscher reveals that the sans-culottes of revolutionary France were the cultural offspring of a deep and densely argued eighteenth-century philosophical divide. The story is utterly fascinating and will come as a surprise, especially to social historians. There are few scholars working today who can rival the breadth or depth of Sonenscher's command of eighteenth-century European intellectual culture."—Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley
With deftness, wit, and great erudition, Michael Sonenscher traces the complex and unexpected pre-Jacobin history of the phrase 'sans culottes' to its origins in the rivalries and concerns of the Parisian salons. This probing history brings to life the patronesses, philosophers, wits, and hacks of the ancien régime and illuminates the contending uses of ancient philosophy and visions of society and personal virtue that circulated among them. The analyses of competing Ciceronian and Cynical views of fashion, and of the gulfs between Rousseau and his self-designated acolytes, are particularly powerful. This book will be sure to transform irrevocably our understanding of the notorious emblem of Jacobinism.
Jennifer Pitts, author of "A Turn to Empire"