Condorcet and Modernity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19937858
AutoresDavid Williams (0000-0001-8976-5760, University of Sheffield, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Fecha de publicación2004-09-16
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaCondorcet and Modernity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511490798
OpenAlexW4211163130
Open LibraryOL17744900M
ISBN9780511490798
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas49

The Marquis de Condorcet was one of the few Enlightenment ideologists to witness the French Revolution and participate as an elected politician at the centre of events during France's transition from monarchy to republic. Condorcet and Modernity explores the interaction between Condorcet's political theory, legislative pragmatism, public policy proposals and the management of change. David Williams examines key topics including rights, the civil order, the Church, the slave trade, women's civil rights, judicial reform, voting and representation, economics, monarchy, power and revolution. He explores the complex links between Condorcet as the visionary ideologist and Condorcet as the pragmatic legislator, and between Condorcet's concept of modernity - the application of 'social arithmetic' to government policies. Based on an extensive array of both printed and manuscript sources, this major contribution to enlightenment studies is a full treatment of Condorcet's politics

Condorcet method · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Law and economics · Legislator · Modernity · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Voting · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Philosophy