Robert Malthus, Rousseauist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C N L Brooke (0000-0002-0524-8457, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-31 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x19000141 |
| OpenAlex | W2942228716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Although the argument of the Essay on population originated in a family disagreement between Malthus and his father Daniel, who idolized Rousseau, and the Essay itself attacks Condorcet and Godwin, both of whom drew on Rousseau's ideas about human perfectibility, Malthus's project can plausibly be seen as an extension of the social theory set out above all in Rousseau's Discourse on the origin of inequality . Malthus was animated by some of Rousseau's characteristic concerns, and he deployed recognizable versions of some of Rousseau's distinctive arguments, in particular relating to the natural sociability and natural condition of humankind, conjectural history, and political economy, especially with respect to the question of balanced growth. His arguments about ‘decent pride’, furthermore, that were emphasized in later editions of the Essay map neatly onto what has been called ‘uninflamed amour-propre ’ in the Rousseau literature. When we treat the social question as a nineteenth-century question, or when we locate its origins in the post-Revolutionary political controversies of the 1790s, we risk losing sight of the way in which what was being discussed were variations on mid-eighteenth-century themes
Argument (complex analysis · Condorcet method · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic · Natural (archaeology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Pride · Sight · Social contract · Sociology · Theology · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (The works and correspondence of David Ricardo)
Essays in Biography
Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism
Before the Deluge
Revolution, Economics and Religion
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
Revolution, Economics and Religion
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
An End to Poverty
Political Writings
Malthus
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality
Correspondance complete de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas
Population Malthus. His Life and Times
Malthus
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |