Citizens without sovereignty : equality and sociability in French thought, 1670-1789 /
In a wide-ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670-1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal history and economics to show how French thinkers sustained a sense of liberty and dignity within an auth...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1m323gx |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Absolutism and the ideal types of sociability
- The language of sociability
- The civilizing process revisited
- Sociability and universal history : Jean-Baptiste Suard and the Scottish Enlightenment in France
- André Morellet and the end of the Enlightenment
- Conclusion.