Michael Sonenscher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 282944 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Sonenscher |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Sonenscher |
| FIRMA | SONENSCHER M |
| AFILIACIONES | The King's College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Damiano Bardelli , La Société littéraire de Lausanne
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
Protean Power
What is constituent power? At first sight, it looks as if it is the power to make a constitution. But this, historically, analytically and politically, is actually where the questions begin. It is
Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee, Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment
Christoph Streb, Radical Writers and the Media Revolution in the Late Enlightenment
Michel Termolle , ‘Émile ou de l’éducation’ dans la presse périodique européenne de 1762
The Age of Melancholy
Théophile Pénigaud de Mourgues , Les Délibérations du peuple
Jean-Baptiste Say, Œuvres complètes, vii
Thérence Carvalho et Bernard Herencia , Les Lumières au chevet de la Pologne
Capitalism and the French Revolution
The aim of this article is to raise, and begin to answer, a question about the relationship between the French Revolution and capitalism. Discussion of the relationship between the two subjects began somewhat later in the nineteenth century than is usually assumed and owed quite a lot to the thought of one of Jean Jaurès’ contemporaries, the Italian Marxist Antonio Labriola. As will be shown, the connection that Labriola made between capitalism a…
From the Hebrew Commonwealth to Party Politics
When, why and how did the subjects of individual and national self-determination come to overlap and what were the effects of this overlap when it occurred? Usually in the history of European political thought, the subject of self-determination is associated with the concept of autonomy, while the subject of national self-determination is associated with the concept of the nation-state. The aim of this article is to examine the relationship betwe…
After Kant
Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or understand the results of the comparison? Kant's question injected a …
Capitalism
Tracking the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism , Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that …
Positive Thinking
How can you know something that cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelled? The question applies most obviously to things like rights, justice or freedom because they do not seem be as easy to locate or describe as things that can be known by the senses. Part of the point of positivism was that under certain conditions they can. To Auguste Comte (1798–1857), the movement's founder, it was possible to have as positive a knowledge of rights,…
Arnaud Orain. La politique du merveilleux
States are strange things. They have huge, costly defense establishments; large, complicated legal systems; and elaborate institutional provisions for raising tax and spending income. But even when the line separating private property from public ownership is indistinct, states usually produce very little or nothing at all. They do, it is said, produce other things, like peace, security, or justice, but it is never very easy to explain the relati…
Krausism and its legacy
Krausismo or Krausism (named after an early nineteenth-century German philosopher named Karl Friedrich Christian Krause) was one of many overlapping ways of thinking about the politics of reform in nineteenth-century Europe. It was once more widely known than it has become, notably because of its connection to the thought of both Pierre Leroux and Lorenz von Stein. The aim of this article to show how this way of thinking about reform had its orig…
Thomas Paine
It has never been easy to decide how best to characterize the political thought of Tom Paine. He was, of course, a radical, but as he emphasized in his Rights of Man, this was less a matter of going back to first principles than of aiming instead to establish arrangements and entitlements that, in certain respects, were distinctly new. He was also, of course, a republican, but his version of republicanism had little in common with that of Harring…
The Oxford handbook of European romanticism
Before anarchy. Hobbes and his critics in modern international thought
Before anarchy. Hobbes and his critics in modern international thought." History of European Ideas, 42(8), pp. 1115–1116
Jeff Horn. Economic Development in Early Modern France
Looking back through the overlapping thickets of legal entitlement, fiscal exemption, institutional immunity, social stratification, and local particularity of the French Old Regime, it is hard to avoid the thought that privilege was the hallmark of a doomed system. This was the message of the Essay on Privileges published in 1788 by the abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, and it is still a message that many modern historians have been inclined to endor…
Politics in Commercial Society
Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives
Sociability, Perfectibility and the Intellectual Legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the concept of sociability was used mainly to refer to the putative range of primary human qualities or capabilities that preceded—or existed independently of—the formation of political societies. This article is an examination of the impact of Rousseau's thought on this then standard usage. Its initial focus is on Rousseau's concept of perfectibility and its bearing on the thought of Marie-Jean-Antoin…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
This essay is about the relationship between the moral and political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the related concepts of autonomy, social science and industrialism. Its aim is to show why these three concepts throw more light both on Rousseau's theory of the relationship between democratic sovereignty and representative government, and on his explanation of the sharply counterintuitive historical trajectory followed by democracy in its p…
The End of Enlightenment and The Holy Alliance
The Cambridge history of French thought
Everyone, it is safe to say, will learn something from this copious collection. It has 53 chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion by its editors, and a bibliography of almost 50 pages. Some c
The sans‐culottes of the Year II
The Cambridge history of French thought
Everyone, it is safe to say, will learn something from this copious collection. It has 53 chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion by its editors, and a bibliography of almost 50 pages. Some c
Sociability, Perfectibility and the Intellectual Legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the concept of sociability was used mainly to refer to the putative range of primary human qualities or capabilities that preceded—or existed independently of—the formation of political societies. This article is an examination of the impact of Rousseau's thought on this then standard usage. Its initial focus is on Rousseau's concept of perfectibility and its bearing on the thought of Marie-Jean-Antoin…
Krausism and its legacy
Krausismo or Krausism (named after an early nineteenth-century German philosopher named Karl Friedrich Christian Krause) was one of many overlapping ways of thinking about the politics of reform in nineteenth-century Europe. It was once more widely known than it has become, notably because of its connection to the thought of both Pierre Leroux and Lorenz von Stein. The aim of this article to show how this way of thinking about reform had its orig…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
This essay is about the relationship between the moral and political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the related concepts of autonomy, social science and industrialism. Its aim is to show why these three concepts throw more light both on Rousseau's theory of the relationship between democratic sovereignty and representative government, and on his explanation of the sharply counterintuitive historical trajectory followed by democracy in its p…
Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory
The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist ord…
The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France
Colin Jones, Michael Sonenscher, The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of the Hôtel-Dieu of Nîmes, French Historical Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 172-214
The Age of Melancholy
Debate * The Empire of Fashion and the Rise of Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France
‘Fashionable consumption’, Bill Sewell writes, ‘played a constitutive role in the development of French capitalism not only in the eighteenth century but also over the long term’.1 The claim goes with the grain of the many recent publications on eighteenth-century French trade and manufacturing industry that Sewell has expertly synthesized.2 But two further aspects of his article invite fuller comment. The first is an examination of the relations…
Ideology, social science and general facts in late eighteenth-century French political thought
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's attack on the natural jurisprudence of Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf is well known. But what happened to modern natural jurisprudence after Rousseau not very well known. The aim of this article is to try to show how and why it turned into what Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès called "social science" and the bearing that this Rousseau-inspired transformation has on making sense of ideology, or the moral and political thought of the l…
The Moment of Social Science”
The first issue of the Décade philosophique appeared on 29 April 1794. In all, fifty-four volumes of the journal were published between that date and 1807, when, on Napoleon's orders, it was forced to merge with the Mercure français . The Décade was published three times a month (taking its name from its appearance on the tenth day of each month of the French republican calendar) and the periodical soon became one of the intellectual powerhouses …
French economists and Bernese agrarians
Physiocracy is still sometimes seen as an oddly archaic programme of agricultural development. The aim of this paper is to show that one of the Physiocrats’ prime concerns was to take the subject of agriculture out of international relations. The fiscal regime that was central to Physiocracy was designed to make every large territorial state self-sufficient and, by doing so, to break the connection between modern great power politics, the interna…
Enlightenment and Revolution
Work & Wages. Natural Law, Politics & the Eighteenth-Century French Trades
Journeymen, the Courts and the French Trades 1781?1791
JOURNEYMEN, THE COURTS AND THE FRENCH TRADES 1781?1791 Get access Michael Sonenscher Michael Sonenscher Middlesex PolytechnicLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 114, Issue 1, February 1987, Pages 77–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/114.1.77 Published: 01 February 1987
Compagnonnages, Confraternities and Associations of Journeymen in Eighteenth-century Paris
Farewell to the Working Class
The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France
Colin Jones, Michael Sonenscher, The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of the Hôtel-Dieu of Nîmes, French Historical Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 172-214
The sans‐culottes of the Year II
Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory
Manufacture in Comparative Perspective
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Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory
The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist ord…
The Rise of Market Culture
Les sans-culottes de l'an II
L'histoire sociale de la Révolution française a été marquée par le fait que le discours révolutionnaire a toujours suridentifié le lien entre l'existence quotidienne et la vie publique. Depuis l'équation établie par Siéyès entre le privilège aristocratique et le parasitisme improductif jusqu'à la caricature de Thermidor présentant les architectes de la Terreur comme la lie de la société, la Révolution a constamment produit sa propre ' interprétat…
Short notices
Noel W. Thompson, The People's Science (1984), viii+252 (Cambridge University Press, £22.50). R. J. P.Kain and H. C. Prince, The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales (1985), xvi‐+327 (Cambridge University Press, £27.50). John Breuilly and Wieland Sachse, Joachim Friedrich Martens (1860–1877) und die Deutsche Arbeiterbewegung (1984), 489 (Schwartz, Göttingen, DM 43.00). (Joachim Friedrich Martens and the German Labour Movement) Anthony D. King, The …
Compagnonnages, Confraternities and Associations of Journeymen in Eighteenth-century Paris
Structure and Mobility
Contentious History
Journeymen, the Courts and the French Trades 1781?1791
JOURNEYMEN, THE COURTS AND THE FRENCH TRADES 1781?1791 Get access Michael Sonenscher Michael Sonenscher Middlesex PolytechnicLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 114, Issue 1, February 1987, Pages 77–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/114.1.77 Published: 01 February 1987
The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France
A Geneve et autour de Geneve aux xviie et xviiie siecles
The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France
The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France
The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century France
Work and Wages
The Cheese and the rats
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MICHAEL SONENSCHER MICHAEL SONENSCHER King's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXXI, October 1991, Pages 1015–1016, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXXI.1015 Published: 01 October 1991
Coercion, Capital, and European States
Work and Wages
Short notices
Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640 (1991), xix + 369 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Margaret H. Darrow, Revolution in the House. Family, Class and Inheritance in Southern France, 1775–1825 (1989), xiv + 279 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $39.50). R. S. Alexander, Bonapartistn and Revolutionary Tradition in France. The Federes of 1815 (1991), xii + 314 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Jo…
Work and Wages
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