Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy : Utopia, Judaism, and Heresy under the French Revolution / Silvana Greco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greco, Silvana, Author.

Contributor:

Freie Universität Berlin, Funder.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book proposes, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of the Philosophie sociale, published in Paris in 1793 by Moses Dobruska (1753-1794). Dobruska was a businessman, scholar, and social philosopher, born into a Jewish family in Moravia, who converted to Catholicism, gained wide recognition at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and then emigrated to France to join the French Revolution. Dobruska, who took on the name Junius Frey during his Parisian sojourn, barely survived his book. Accused of conspiring on behalf of foreign powers, he was guillotined on April 5, 1794, at the height of The Terror, on the same day as Georges Jacques Danton. From Dobruska's ideas, which were widely used between the late eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century without attribution to their author, emerge some of the key concepts of the social sciences as we know them today. An enthusiastic and unfortunate revolutionary and sometimes a brilliant theorist, Moses Dobruska deserves a role of his own in the history of sociology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Moses Dobruska: Rise and Fall of an Alternative Hero

3 The Philosophie Sociale of 1793: A New Thought

4 Man and Society

5 Democracy, Aristocracy, or Monarchy? Representative Democracy

6 Happiness

7 Reception and Influence of the Philosophie Sociale

8 Concluding Remarks

Appendix 1: Glossary of the Universal Constitution

Appendix 2: The Seventy Principles of the Universal Constitution

Appendix 3: The German Draft of the Philosophie Sociale

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Concepts

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110758825

3110758822

OCLC:

1334107107