@article{1478432,
      recid = {1478432},
      author = {GOLDSTEIN, Jan,},
      title = {The Post-Revolutionary Self : Politics and Psyche in  France, 1750-1850 /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478432},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037786},
}