Condorcet : political writings / edited by Steven Lukes, Nadia Urbinati.
2012
JC179 .C662813 2012eb
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Title
Condorcet : political writings / edited by Steven Lukes, Nadia Urbinati.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English. 2012
ISBN
9781139380416 (electronic bk.)
1139380419 (electronic bk.)
9781139377553 (electronic bk.)
1139377558 (electronic bk.)
1280664185
9781280664182
9781139108119 (electronic bk.)
1139108115 (electronic bk.)
9781107021013
1107021014
9781107605398
1107605393
1139380419 (electronic bk.)
9781139377553 (electronic bk.)
1139377558 (electronic bk.)
1280664185
9781280664182
9781139108119 (electronic bk.)
1139108115 (electronic bk.)
9781107021013
1107021014
9781107605398
1107605393
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the French.
Description
1 online resource (xlv, 209 pages)
Call Number
JC179 .C662813 2012eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)795125079
Summary
"Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), the innovating founder of mathematical thinking in politics, was the last great philosophe of the French Enlightenment and a central figure in the early years of the French Revolution. His political writings give a compelling vision of human progress across world history and express the hopes of that time in the future perfectibility of man. This volume contains a revised translation of 'The Sketch', written while in hiding from the Jacobin Terror, together with lesser-known writings on the emancipation of women, the abolition of slavery, the meanings of freedom and despotism and reflections on revolutionary violence. The introduction by Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati sets these works in context and shows why Condorcet is of real interest today as we reinterpret the meaning of Enlightenment, the very idea of progress and the founding ideas of social democracy"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. The Sketch
2. On slavery. Rules of the Society of the Friends of Negroes (1788)
3. On the emancipation of women. On giving women the right of citizenship (1790)
4. On despotism. Thoughts on despotism (1789)
5. On freedom. On the meaning of the words 'freedom', 'free', 'a free man', 'a free people' (1793-94)
6. On revolution. On the meaning of the word 'revolutionary' (1793)
7. Advice to his daughter (written in hiding March 1794).
2. On slavery. Rules of the Society of the Friends of Negroes (1788)
3. On the emancipation of women. On giving women the right of citizenship (1790)
4. On despotism. Thoughts on despotism (1789)
5. On freedom. On the meaning of the words 'freedom', 'free', 'a free man', 'a free people' (1793-94)
6. On revolution. On the meaning of the word 'revolutionary' (1793)
7. Advice to his daughter (written in hiding March 1794).
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Series
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
Includes
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794. Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain. English.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794. Selections. English. 2012. Condorcet. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
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