03897nam 2200685Ia 450 991080926870332120231206211122.01-282-85415-197866128541560-7735-6624-410.1515/9780773566248(CKB)1000000000713391(OCoLC)243500890(CaPaEBR)ebrary10132260(SSID)ssj0000281989(PQKBManifestationID)11193843(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281989(PQKBWorkID)10316732(PQKB)11703648(CaPaEBR)400759(CaBNvSL)slc00200454(Au-PeEL)EBL3330746(CaPaEBR)ebr10141416(CaONFJC)MIL285415(OCoLC)929120966(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/m119n9(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400759(MiAaPQ)EBC3330746(DE-B1597)654602(DE-B1597)9780773566248(MiAaPQ)EBC3244558(EXLCZ)99100000000071339119980303h19961996 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMinerva's message stabilizing the French Revolution /Martin S. StaumMontreal ;Buffalo :McGill-Queen's University Press,1996.©19961 online resource (xii, 342 pages) illustrations, portraitsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-1442-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-331) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Intellectuals, Revolution, and the Social Sciences -- Enlightenment Social Science Models -- The Institute Intellectuals: Change and Continuity -- Advice to Government and Prize Contests -- The Public Image of the Institute and the Decline of Encyclopedism -- Indelible Temperament and Condillac’s Uncertain Legacy -- A Science of Morality -- Philosophical History and Political Discord -- Human Geography: Correlating Climate, Culture, and Civilization -- Rights, Utility, and Political Institutions -- Towards the Political Economy of Commercial Society -- Suppression and Resurrection of an Academy -- Joseph Lakanal’s List of Nominees for the Class of Moral and Political Sciences for Consideration by the National Convention, October 1795 (cancelled by the Directory) -- Members and Associates of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences, Established in 1795 -- The National Institute after the Reorganization of 1803 -- Members of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences Carried Over into the Revived Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1832 -- Number of Memoirs Read before the Class of Moral and Political Sciences and Published in Its Collection -- Prize Contests of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexDuring the French Revolution the French National Institute, including the Class of Moral and Political Sciences (CMPS), was established to replace the abolished Ancien Regime academies. In Minerva's Message Martin Staum explores how what began as the institutionalization of Enlightenment social science culture became a tool to end revolutionary turmoil and establish social order.EnlightenmentFranceFranceIntellectual life18th centuryPolitical aspectsFranceHistoryRevolution, 1789-1799InfluenceEnlightenment001.1/0944/09033Staum Martin S170276MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809268703321Minerva's message3919997UNINA