The post-revolutionary self : politics and psyche in France, 1750-1850 / / Jan Goldstein
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| Autore: |
Goldstein Jan <1946->
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| Titolo: |
The post-revolutionary self : politics and psyche in France, 1750-1850 / / Jan Goldstein
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-674-03778-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812734903321 |
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