Title: Minerva's message
First published: 1996
Description: The establishment of a social sciences academy in revolutionary France illustrates the dilemmas of intellectuals attempting to maintain their autonomy while hoping to influence government policy.  Vulnerable to Bonaparte's own preferred means of seeking social control, the institutionalization of critical Enlightenment social science culture became an expendable competing project to end revolutionary turmoil.
Subjects: Aspect politique, Enlightenment, Histoire, History, Influence, Institut national de France, Intellectual life, Political aspects, Vie intellectuelle, France, intellectual life, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, influence
Places: France
Time periods: 1789-1799 (Révolution), 18e siècle, 18th century, 19e siècle, Revolution, 1789-1799
LC classification: DC33.5 .S73 1996