Condorcet : political writings / edited by Steven Lukes, Nadia Urbinati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794, author.

Contributor:

Lukes, Steven, editor.

Urbinati, Nadia, 1955- editor.

Series:

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlv, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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).

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794. Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain. English

ISBN:

1-139-36639-4

1-107-23144-2

1-280-66418-5

9786613641113

1-139-37898-8

1-139-10811-5

1-139-37612-8

1-139-37755-8

1-139-38041-9

1-139-37213-0

OCLC:

794327679