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The post-revolutionary self [[electronic resource] ] : politics and psyche in France, 1750-1850 / / Jan Goldstein



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Autore: Goldstein Jan <1946-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The post-revolutionary self [[electronic resource] ] : politics and psyche in France, 1750-1850 / / Jan Goldstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 414 p. ) : ill
Disciplina: 155.2094409033
Soggetto topico: Psychiatry - France - History - 18th century
Psychiatry - France - History - 19th century
Monomania
Ego (Psychology)
Middle class - France - History - 18th century
Middle class - France - History - 19th century
Classificazione: XB 5693
Note generali: Originally published: 2005.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-397) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Psychological Interiority versus Self-Talk -- I. THE PROBLEM FOR WHICH PSYCHOLOGY FURNISHED A SOLUTION -- 1. The Perils of Imagination at the End of the Old Regime -- 2. The Revolutionary Schooling of Imagination -- II. THE POLITICS OF SELFHOOD -- 3. Is There a Self in This Mental Apparatus? -- 4. An A Priori Self for the Bourgeois Male: Victor Cousin's Project -- 5. Cousinian Hegemony -- 6. Religious and Secular Access to the Vie Intérieure: Renan at the Crossroads -- 7. A Palpable Self for the Socially Marginal: The Phrenological Alternative -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the wake of the French Revolution, as attempts to restore political stability to France repeatedly failed, a group of concerned intellectuals identified a likely culprit: the prevalent sensationalist psychology, and especially the flimsy and fragmented self it produced. They proposed a vast, state-run pedagogical project to replace sensationalism with a new psychology that showcased an indivisible and actively willing self, or moi. As conceived and executed by Victor Cousin, this long-lived project singled out the male bourgeoisie for training in selfhood --Cousin and his disciples deemed workers and women incapable of the introspective finesse necessary to appropriate that self in practice.
Titolo autorizzato: The post-revolutionary self  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-03778-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778161303321
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