The post-revolutionary self
Subtitle: politics and psyche in France, 1750-1850
By: Jan Goldstein.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Description: "Beginning with a fresh consideration of the place of sensationalism in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, Jan Goldstein traces a post-Revolutionary politics of self-hood that reserved the Cousinian moi for the educated elite, outraging Catholics and consigning socially marginal groups to the ministrations of phrenology. Situating the Cousinian moi between the fragmented selves of eighteenth-century sensationalism and twentieth-century Freudianism. Goldstein suggests that the resolutely unitary self of the nineteenth century was only an interlude tailored to the needs of the post-Revolutionary bourgeois order."--Jacket.