Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings - "The Social Contract" and "The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts)" and ...
The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755 - 1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vigee Le Brun a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, she ...
Les Elements d'ideologie d'Antoine Destutt de Tracy font ici l'objet d'une relecture critique fondee sur une analyse detaillee des strategies paratextuelles qui ont ponctue la genealogie des differentes etapes de l'elaboration de la « science des idees. Elle propose a travers une approche pluridisciplinaire de cette oeuvre une remise en ...
Since capital punishment was such a hotly debated issue in Europe during the early nineteenth century, and since crime, trials, and executions provided ideal material for the melodrama that characterizes French Romanticism, several authors of the period naturally exploited the death penalty in their works. Severed Heads and Martyred Souls examines ...
From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France traces the evolution of human perfectibility discourse during the second half of the eighteenth century and the early post-Revolutionary era in France. Examining key articulations of Enlightenment meliorism as it shifts between open-ended models of human perfectibility and ...
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