Michael Drolet
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Drolet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Drolet |
| SIGNATURE | DROLET M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Faire du pain avec les excréments humains ! » Nourrir l’humanité: Pierre Leroux et le circulus
Cet article analyse une théorie hautement singulière, conçue comme une critique de la transformation chimico-industrielle de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation au XIXe siècle : le circulus de Pierre Leroux. En réponse au développement d’un système agricole à forte intensité de capital (qui considérait que l’utilisation d’engrais artificiels augmentait le potentiel des sols, permettant ainsi à l’agriculture de réaliser des gains de productivité à …
L’Encyclopedie nouvelle ou l’intelligence en « ordre disperse
Publiée entre 1833 et 1847, l’Encyclopédie nouvelle s’estimait héritière de la grande Encyclopédie de Diderot et d’Alembert. Animée par Pierre Leroux et Jean Reynaud, puis dès 1840 par le seul Reynaud, elle rassemblait un large réseau de collaborateurs. Elle tenta d’organiser les savoirs nouveaux : ceux correspondant aux bouleversements induis par les temps industriels, les révolutions politiques et les progrès des sciences et des techniques. Org…
Une économie politique prolétaire: Smith (Adam), par Jules Leroux
International audience
Expérience et « science de gouvernement: Statistique, par Frédéric Le Play
International audience
The Making of Egalitarian Utilitarianism: The Case of Joseph Rey (1779-1855)
This article examines the work of the nineteenth-century legal theorist, philosopher, and political radical, Joseph Rey (1799-1855). It explores Rey’s serious engagement with Benthamite utilitarianism, philosophical radicalism, and Owenism. It examines how Rey radically re-theorised the principle of utility by fundamentally re-thinking the individual and her creative potentialities, situating both within a radically egalitarian system of co-opera…
Robert Owen and Continental Europe
This introduction examines the intellectual, political, economic, and social context to the reception of Robert Owen’s ideas, and Owenism more generally, in Continental Europe. The introduction describes how Owen’s ideas attracted significant interest in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, particularly in France, and discusses how the French reception of his ideas served as a filter and medium through which his ideas were disseminated throug…
The ‘science of education’ and Owenism: The case of Joseph Rey (1779–1855)
This article examines the impact of Robert Owen’s educational ideas in France. It traces how his ideas attracted the attention of French liberals, particularly Charles de Lasteyrie, Alexandre de Laborde and Joseph-Marie de Gérando, and republicans associated with Marc-Antoine Jullien’s Revue Encyclopédique. The article focuses in particular on the work of one of Owen’s early French followers, the leading radical egalitarian political and social t…
Women and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination: Introduction
International audience
Thinking about the environment today and yesterday
Kindness as the Foundation to Community: For a ‘Radical Equality Tempered by Benevolence’. Joseph Rey of Grenoble (1779-1855)
This article examines the work of the jurist and political and social theorist, Joseph Rey. It explores Rey’s role within a French and international network of intellectuals and conspirators who sought to overthrow established monarchies and replace them with popularly elected democratic republics. The article shows how Rey’s extensive writings on legal, political, social and educational questions give a unique insight into France’s political, in…
Populology’ and populism
Sovereignty: A questionable concept difficult to bury
Nature, Science and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Political Economy: The Case of Michel Chevalier (1805–1879)
This article explores the significant yet neglected topic of environmental awareness in nineteenth-century French political economy, and the French school of “industrialism” in particular. It focuses on the work of the one-time Saint-Simonian and political economist Michel Chevalier (1806–79) as an interesting example of an environmentally sensitive political economy of “industrialism.” The article reveals how Chevalier's political economy was in…
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism, by Larry Siedentop
This is an illuminating work. Its narrative is beguiling, its thesis enticing. Reviewers in the educated press have been charmed by it, praising the book for being both thoughtful and original. Thoughtful it is. Original it is not. Larry Siedentop has produced a twenty-first century reworking of the work of two eminent nineteenth-century French historians: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, and, above all, François Guizot. Inspired by these two grea…
A nineteenth-century Mediterranean union: Michel Chevalier’s Système de la Méditerranée
This article examines one of the nineteenth-century’s most revolutionary schemes for establishing a union of Mediterranean states. In 1832, Michel Chevalier set out a startling scheme that would bring to an end armed conflict in Europe through a confederation of European states and a subsequent alliance between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. His plan envisaged a vast infrastructure network of railways, canals, roads and shipping lanes that would …
French Political Thought: Its Untapped Traditions
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God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide, by Thomas Albert Howard
This book has an ambitious agenda. Its main purpose is to try to make sense of, and ultimately bridge, what Thomas Albert Howard calls a ‘transatlantic religious gap’, an abiding religiosity in America juxtaposed against a rising European secularity. The size of this gap is important because it affects political, economic, and social and cultural relations between European nations and the United States. That it appears to be growing, according to…
The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794–1854, by Carolina Armenteros
In his 1797 Considérations sur la France, Joseph de Maistre declared the French Revolution to be a ‘unique event in history’. It was ‘radically bad’, the ‘highest degree of corruption ever known’, ‘pure impurity’. Maistre’s tirade against the Revolution rested on the premiss that, as he affirmed in Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques (1809), all human action divorced from God ‘is negative and will result only in destruct…
Manners, method, and psychology: The enduring relevance of Tocqueville’s reflections on democracy
L'Identite Economique de la France: Libre-Echange et Protectionisme 1814-1851
The starting point of this work lies in a failure. When Fernand Braudel and Ernest Labrousse put together the doorstopper Histoire économique et sociale de la France, they considered the issue of commercial politics in nineteenth century France to be of such little academic interest as to warrant barely a mention. In the four volumes that made up this compendious work, a mere four pages covered the issue. Commercial policy so clearly mirrored dom…
Gustave de Beaumont’s Ireland and the Anxieties about Corruption and Forms of Empire
In the last few years there has been a surge of interest in early nineteenth century views on empire, including those of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont. Yet despite this important development, I beleive there is a significant gap in the historiography of liberal conceptions of empire. This lacuna results from a neglect of the connection between democracy, moral corruption, and empire. In this essay I will contend that Beaumont’s li…
Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland and the Anxieties about Corruption and Forms of Empire
Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland and the Anxieties about Corruption and Forms of Empire Michael Drolet (bio) In the last few years there has been a surge of interest in early nineteenth century views on empire, including those of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont.1 Yet despite this important development, I believe there is a significant gap in the historiography of liberal conceptions of empire. This lacuna results from a neglect of the …
French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society
La liberté des Modernes. Isaiah Berlin et les néo-républicains
Selon les auteurs néo-républicains — Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit et Jean-Fabien Spitz — une conception appauvrie de la liberté serait à l’origine des malheurs du libéralisme. Ils soutiennent que les lacunes de la conception libérale de la liberté ne peuvent être corrigées que si celle-ci est remplacée par une conception plus rigoureuse de la liberté, dont les racines se trouvent dans l’humanisme républicain. L’objectif de cet article est d’ana…
Alexis de Tocqueville, Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution
The life and work of Alexis de Tocqueville offer near-inexhaustible topics for reflection, speculation and debate. It therefore comes as no surprise that, in his own superb contribution to the study of Tocqueville, Hugh Brogan should judge that a definitive biography of him is, in Brogan's words, ‘impossible’. Brogan's remark is strictly true—and a writer of his skill knows the precise meaning and the exact weight of every word he employs. But, i…
Industry, Class and Society: A Historiographic Reinterpretation of Michel Chevalier
The nineteenth century engineer, economist and politician Michel Chevalier was one of France's most controversial and celebrated figures. He was a visionary who is today almost solely remembered for having negotiated with Richard Cobden the Anglo-French Commercial treaty of 1860. In his day, Chevalier moved from being one of the fiercest critics of France's political establishment to one of its most ardent defenders. As editor-in-chief of the Sai…
The Wild and the Sublime: Lyotard's Post-Modern Politics
This paper examines the thought of Jean-François Lyotard in relation to the problems of justice and the constitution of a post-modern politics. It argues that Lyotard is highly influenced by Kant's aesthetics and specifically by the idea of indeterminate judgement in the formulation of a conception of justice that, in an age of social variegation and fragmentation, underlies a politics which strives to promote different ways of looking at, and li…
A nineteenth-century Mediterranean union: Michel Chevalier’s Système de la Méditerranée
This article examines one of the nineteenth-century’s most revolutionary schemes for establishing a union of Mediterranean states. In 1832, Michel Chevalier set out a startling scheme that would bring to an end armed conflict in Europe through a confederation of European states and a subsequent alliance between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. His plan envisaged a vast infrastructure network of railways, canals, roads and shipping lanes that would …
Quentin Skinner and Jacques Derrida on Power and the State
This article compares and contrasts the work of Quentin Skinner and Jacques Derrida on power and the State. It argues that despite Skinner's explicit repudiation of Derrida's method of philosophising, he has come to advocate an approach to the history of ideas that bears important and striking similarities to Derrida's thought. I attribute this intellectual gravitation toward Derrida as the logical outcome of a shared understanding on the nature …
Tocqueville's interest in the social: Or how statistics informed his ‘new science of politics’
This essay examines Tocqueville's interest in statistics, and how it informed his analysis of democracy. It explores his early engagement with the discipline and shows how this proved critical to his and Beaumont's 1833 study of the American penitentiary system. It shows that Tocqueville's interest in statistics was long lasting. And it pays particular attention to his links with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, examining h…
The ‘science of education’ and Owenism: The case of Joseph Rey (1779–1855)
This article examines the impact of Robert Owen’s educational ideas in France. It traces how his ideas attracted the attention of French liberals, particularly Charles de Lasteyrie, Alexandre de Laborde and Joseph-Marie de Gérando, and republicans associated with Marc-Antoine Jullien’s Revue Encyclopédique. The article focuses in particular on the work of one of Owen’s early French followers, the leading radical egalitarian political and social t…
Nature, Science and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Political Economy: The Case of Michel Chevalier (1805–1879)
This article explores the significant yet neglected topic of environmental awareness in nineteenth-century French political economy, and the French school of “industrialism” in particular. It focuses on the work of the one-time Saint-Simonian and political economist Michel Chevalier (1806–79) as an interesting example of an environmentally sensitive political economy of “industrialism.” The article reveals how Chevalier's political economy was in…
Manners, method, and psychology: The enduring relevance of Tocqueville’s reflections on democracy
French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society
Failed states and modern empires: Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland and French Algeria
Democracy and political economy: Tocqueville's thoughts on J.-B. Say and T.R. Malthus
This essay examines the intellectual origins of Tocqueville's thoughts on political economy. It argues that Tocqueville believed political economy was crucial to what he called the ‘new science of politics’, and it explores his first forays into the discipline by examining his studies of J.-B. Say and T.R. Malthus. The essay shows how Tocqueville was initially attracted to Say's approach as it provided him with a rigorous analytical framework wit…
The Wild and the Sublime: Lyotard's Post-Modern Politics
This paper examines the thought of Jean-François Lyotard in relation to the problems of justice and the constitution of a post-modern politics. It argues that Lyotard is highly influenced by Kant's aesthetics and specifically by the idea of indeterminate judgement in the formulation of a conception of justice that, in an age of social variegation and fragmentation, underlies a politics which strives to promote different ways of looking at, and li…
Aesthetics, language, and the logic of the postmodern
Democracy and political economy: Tocqueville's thoughts on J.-B. Say and T.R. Malthus
This essay examines the intellectual origins of Tocqueville's thoughts on political economy. It argues that Tocqueville believed political economy was crucial to what he called the ‘new science of politics’, and it explores his first forays into the discipline by examining his studies of J.-B. Say and T.R. Malthus. The essay shows how Tocqueville was initially attracted to Say's approach as it provided him with a rigorous analytical framework wit…
Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution
Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution Robert T.GannettJr Chicago and London The University of Chicago Press 2003 xiii+246 £ 27.50 0 226 28108 6
Victorian Political Thought on France and the French
Victorian Political Thought on France and the French Get access Michael Drolet Michael Drolet Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 122–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/18.1.122 Published: 01 March 2004
Certain Ideas of France: Essays on French History and Civilization
Certain Ideas of France: Essays on French History and Civilization H. L.Wesseling Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press 2002 xvi+205 £ 49.95 0 313 32341 0
Tocqueville's interest in the social: Or how statistics informed his ‘new science of politics’
This essay examines Tocqueville's interest in statistics, and how it informed his analysis of democracy. It explores his early engagement with the discipline and shows how this proved critical to his and Beaumont's 1833 study of the American penitentiary system. It shows that Tocqueville's interest in statistics was long lasting. And it pays particular attention to his links with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, examining h…
Conflict and identity: The role of religion and the press in shaping the political culture of modern France
Failed states and modern empires: Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland and French Algeria
Quentin Skinner and Jacques Derrida on Power and the State
This article compares and contrasts the work of Quentin Skinner and Jacques Derrida on power and the State. It argues that despite Skinner's explicit repudiation of Derrida's method of philosophising, he has come to advocate an approach to the history of ideas that bears important and striking similarities to Derrida's thought. I attribute this intellectual gravitation toward Derrida as the logical outcome of a shared understanding on the nature …
La liberté des Modernes. Isaiah Berlin et les néo-républicains
Selon les auteurs néo-républicains — Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit et Jean-Fabien Spitz — une conception appauvrie de la liberté serait à l’origine des malheurs du libéralisme. Ils soutiennent que les lacunes de la conception libérale de la liberté ne peuvent être corrigées que si celle-ci est remplacée par une conception plus rigoureuse de la liberté, dont les racines se trouvent dans l’humanisme républicain. L’objectif de cet article est d’ana…
Alexis de Tocqueville, Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution
The life and work of Alexis de Tocqueville offer near-inexhaustible topics for reflection, speculation and debate. It therefore comes as no surprise that, in his own superb contribution to the study of Tocqueville, Hugh Brogan should judge that a definitive biography of him is, in Brogan's words, ‘impossible’. Brogan's remark is strictly true—and a writer of his skill knows the precise meaning and the exact weight of every word he employs. But, i…
Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970
When Friedrich Meinecke reflected on the development of historical thought in the nineteenth century, he asserted boldly that it was ‘one of the greatest intellectual revolutions that has ever taken place in Western thought'. In this collection of essays, Jonathan Dewald reveals the extent to which Meinecke was right. He does this by focusing on the emergence of social history in nineteenth-century French historical thought—an ambitious topic. As…
Industry, Class and Society: A Historiographic Reinterpretation of Michel Chevalier
The nineteenth century engineer, economist and politician Michel Chevalier was one of France's most controversial and celebrated figures. He was a visionary who is today almost solely remembered for having negotiated with Richard Cobden the Anglo-French Commercial treaty of 1860. In his day, Chevalier moved from being one of the fiercest critics of France's political establishment to one of its most ardent defenders. As editor-in-chief of the Sai…
L'Identite Economique de la France: Libre-Echange et Protectionisme 1814-1851
The starting point of this work lies in a failure. When Fernand Braudel and Ernest Labrousse put together the doorstopper Histoire économique et sociale de la France, they considered the issue of commercial politics in nineteenth century France to be of such little academic interest as to warrant barely a mention. In the four volumes that made up this compendious work, a mere four pages covered the issue. Commercial policy so clearly mirrored dom…
Gustave de Beaumont’s Ireland and the Anxieties about Corruption and Forms of Empire
In the last few years there has been a surge of interest in early nineteenth century views on empire, including those of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont. Yet despite this important development, I beleive there is a significant gap in the historiography of liberal conceptions of empire. This lacuna results from a neglect of the connection between democracy, moral corruption, and empire. In this essay I will contend that Beaumont’s li…
Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland and the Anxieties about Corruption and Forms of Empire
Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland and the Anxieties about Corruption and Forms of Empire Michael Drolet (bio) In the last few years there has been a surge of interest in early nineteenth century views on empire, including those of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont.1 Yet despite this important development, I believe there is a significant gap in the historiography of liberal conceptions of empire. This lacuna results from a neglect of the …
French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society
Manners, method, and psychology: The enduring relevance of Tocqueville’s reflections on democracy
God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide, by Thomas Albert Howard
This book has an ambitious agenda. Its main purpose is to try to make sense of, and ultimately bridge, what Thomas Albert Howard calls a ‘transatlantic religious gap’, an abiding religiosity in America juxtaposed against a rising European secularity. The size of this gap is important because it affects political, economic, and social and cultural relations between European nations and the United States. That it appears to be growing, according to…
The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794–1854, by Carolina Armenteros
In his 1797 Considérations sur la France, Joseph de Maistre declared the French Revolution to be a ‘unique event in history’. It was ‘radically bad’, the ‘highest degree of corruption ever known’, ‘pure impurity’. Maistre’s tirade against the Revolution rested on the premiss that, as he affirmed in Essai sur le principe générateur des constitutions politiques (1809), all human action divorced from God ‘is negative and will result only in destruct…
French Political Thought: Its Untapped Traditions
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A nineteenth-century Mediterranean union: Michel Chevalier’s Système de la Méditerranée
This article examines one of the nineteenth-century’s most revolutionary schemes for establishing a union of Mediterranean states. In 1832, Michel Chevalier set out a startling scheme that would bring to an end armed conflict in Europe through a confederation of European states and a subsequent alliance between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. His plan envisaged a vast infrastructure network of railways, canals, roads and shipping lanes that would …
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism, by Larry Siedentop
This is an illuminating work. Its narrative is beguiling, its thesis enticing. Reviewers in the educated press have been charmed by it, praising the book for being both thoughtful and original. Thoughtful it is. Original it is not. Larry Siedentop has produced a twenty-first century reworking of the work of two eminent nineteenth-century French historians: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, and, above all, François Guizot. Inspired by these two grea…
Nature, Science and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Political Economy: The Case of Michel Chevalier (1805–1879)
This article explores the significant yet neglected topic of environmental awareness in nineteenth-century French political economy, and the French school of “industrialism” in particular. It focuses on the work of the one-time Saint-Simonian and political economist Michel Chevalier (1806–79) as an interesting example of an environmentally sensitive political economy of “industrialism.” The article reveals how Chevalier's political economy was in…
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