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Human nature and the French Revolution : from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code / Xavier Martin ; translated from the French by Patrick Corcoran.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Polygons ; v. 3.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2001Description: 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781782381709
  • 1782381708
Uniform titles:
  • Nature humaine et Révolution française. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human nature and the French Revolution.DDC classification:
  • 128/.0944/09033 22
LOC classification:
  • BD450 .M277313 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 86.52
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Human Nature -- 2. Helvetius and d'Holbach -- 3. Voltaire -- 4. Rousseau -- 5. Pedagogy and Politics -- 6. Mirabeau and Sieyes -- 7. The Audacity of the Philanthropists -- 8. Robespierre -- 9. Making an Impression -- 10. Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy -- 11. La Reveilliere-Lepeaux and Leclerc -- 12. Supervised Sovereignty -- 13. Madame de Stael and Constant -- 14. Bonaparte: Ideologue? -- 15. The Napoleonic Code.
Review: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.

1. Human Nature -- 2. Helvetius and d'Holbach -- 3. Voltaire -- 4. Rousseau -- 5. Pedagogy and Politics -- 6. Mirabeau and Sieyes -- 7. The Audacity of the Philanthropists -- 8. Robespierre -- 9. Making an Impression -- 10. Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy -- 11. La Reveilliere-Lepeaux and Leclerc -- 12. Supervised Sovereignty -- 13. Madame de Stael and Constant -- 14. Bonaparte: Ideologue? -- 15. The Napoleonic Code.

"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."--Jacket.

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