Jules Michelet and the Nineteenth-Century Concept of Insanity
A Romantic's Reinterpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | RICHARD RAYMOND CHASE (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 725-725 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286569 |
| OpenAlex | W2312441813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Despite the historical attention that Jules Michelet continues to receive, there has been no adequate explanation of his defense of democracy within the context of his century, when conservatives, and frequently liberals, held that the masses were insane and needed guidance from a ruling class and a paternalistic government.' Michel Foucault first emphasized the use of psychology to categorize the people as incompetent and dangerous, which in turn has led to a common conclusion, summarized by Jan Goldstein, that nineteenth-century psychology was antidemocratic.' Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, and
Aesthetics · Art · Insanity · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Reinterpretation · Romance · French Literature and Criticism · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |