‘The Great Society of the Human Species’: Volney and the Global Politics of Revolutionary France (2013)
This article analyses the complex and contested geo-politics associated with the concept of a universal human society during the era of the French Revolution. It focuses on the figure of Constantin-François Volney (1757–1820), a neglected philosopher who played a significant role in the history of both French anti-imperialist thought and French imperial practice in North Africa and the Levant. It uses that focus to explore the relationship between visions of human emancipation and the exercise of global power during the 1790s and beyond.
...MoreArticle Alexander Cook; Ned Curthoys (2013) Introduction. Intellectual History Review (pp. 285-288).
Similar Citations
Article
Silvia Manzo;
(2019)
Historiographical Approaches on Experience and Empiricism in the Early Nineteenth-Century: Degérando and Tennemann
(/isis/citation/CBB444177107/)
Book
Blamires, Cyprian;
(2008)
The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism
(/isis/citation/CBB000953774/)
Book
Goldstein, Jan;
(2005)
The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750--1850
(/isis/citation/CBB000950616/)
Article
Gissis, Snait;
(2009)
Interactions between Social and Biological Thinking: The Case of Lamarck
(/isis/citation/CBB000932272/)
Book
Donna Landry;
(2009)
Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB218819286/)
Article
Éric Gobe;
(2016)
Jalons pour une sociohistoire des ingénieurs coloniaux au Maghreb; (Milestones for a Sociohistory of Colonial Engineers in the Maghreb)
(/isis/citation/CBB935770441/)
Article
Barney, Richard A.;
(2013)
Burke, Biomedicine, and Biobelligerence
(/isis/citation/CBB001201890/)
Article
Pritchard, Sara B.;
(2012)
From Hydroimperialism to Hydrocapitalism: “French” Hydraulics in France, North Africa, and Beyond
(/isis/citation/CBB001250763/)
Book
Sandro Tirini;
(2021)
Vita di Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, contessa di Rumford
(/isis/citation/CBB882603015/)
Article
Adkins, G. Matthew;
(2008)
The Renaissance of Peiresc: Aubin-Louis Millin and the Postrevolutionary Republic of Letters
(/isis/citation/CBB000950505/)
Thesis
Dodman, Thomas W.;
(2011)
Homesick Epoch: Dying of Nostalgia in Post-Revolutionary France
(/isis/citation/CBB001567271/)
Book
Johnson, Sherry;
(2011)
Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001202047/)
Chapter
Bernadette Bensaude Vincent;
(2018)
Teaching Chemistry in the French Revolution: Pedagogy, Materials and Politics
(/isis/citation/CBB390586705/)
Article
Thomas Dodman;
(2020)
Tocqueville and the Consciousness of Capital (Reading The Ancien Régime with Lukács)
(/isis/citation/CBB674263670/)
Article
Walker, Mark;
(2009)
“Ideologically-Correct” Science: The French Revolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001022197/)
Book
Sabine Arnaud;
(2015)
On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category Between 1670 and 1820
(/isis/citation/CBB986198630/)
Book
Spary, E. C.;
(2014)
Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760--1815
(/isis/citation/CBB001552819/)
Book
Lise Dumasy-Queffélec;
Hélène Spengler;
(2014)
Médecine, sciences de la vie et littérature en France et en Europe de la révolution à nos jours
(/isis/citation/CBB263680135/)
Book
Warren Schmaus;
(2018)
Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Charles Renouvier's Political Philosophy of Science
(/isis/citation/CBB857223906/)
Book
Perovic, Sanja;
(2012)
The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics
(/isis/citation/CBB001451173/)
Be the first to comment!