The Post-Revolutionary Self : : Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 / / Jan GOLDSTEIN.
In the wake of the French Revolution, as attempts to restore political stability to France repeatedly failed, a group of concerned intellectuals identified a likely culprit: the prevalent sensationalist psychology, and especially the flimsy and fragmented self it produced. They proposed a vast, stat...
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: Psychological Interiority versus Self-Talk
- I. THE PROBLEM FOR WHICH PSYCHOLOGY FURNISHED A SOLUTION
- 1. The Perils of Imagination at the End of the Old Regime
- 2. The Revolutionary Schooling of Imagination
- II. THE POLITICS OF SELFHOOD
- 3. Is There a Self in This Mental Apparatus?
- 4. An A Priori Self for the Bourgeois Male: Victor Cousin's Project
- 5. Cousinian Hegemony
- 6. Religious and Secular Access to the Vie Intérieure: Renan at the Crossroads
- 7. A Palpable Self for the Socially Marginal: The Phrenological Alternative
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Note on Sources
- Index