Human Nature and the French Revolution
Subtitle: From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code (Polygons)
Contributors: Patrick Corcoran (Translator)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781571817099
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law; c 1700 to c 1800; France - History - Revolution And Napoleonic Empire (1789-1815); Philosophy Of The 18th Century; Sociology; Social Science; History; 18th century; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - France; History & Surveys - General; Enlightenment; France; Philosophical anthropology; Revolution, 1789-1799
Description: "What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier Martin came to realize that there is no unified view of man and that, alongside the "official" revolutionary discourse, very divergent views can be traced in a variety of sources from the Enlightenment to the napoleonic Code."--BOOK JACKET.