The Post-Revolutionary Self : Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 / Jan GOLDSTEIN.
2009
RC450.F7 -- G65 2005eb
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The Post-Revolutionary Self : Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 / Jan GOLDSTEIN.
Author
GOLDSTEIN, Jan, author.
ISBN
9780674037786
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
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In English.
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10.4159/9780674037786 doi
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RC450.F7 -- G65 2005eb
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XB 5693
Dewey Decimal Classification
155.2094409033
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
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
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