Enlightenment Aberrations : : Error and Revolution in France / / David W. Bates.
In Enlightenment Aberrations, David W. Bates shows that error was a complex, important, and by no means entirely negative concept in Enlightenment thought, one that had a decisive influence in revolutionary debates on political identity and national history. What can it mean to write a history of er...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Aberrations of Enlightenment
- 2. Wandering in the Space of Knowledge
- 3. Improper Couplings: Language, Judgment, and Epistemological Desire
- 4. Cutting through Doubt: Condorcet and the Political Decision
- 5. "The General Will Cannot Err": Representation and Truth in Early Revolutionary Political Thought
- 6. The Terror: Marking Aberration in the Body Politic
- 7. A Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Sin
- 8. Deviant Repetitions: Birth and Rebirth in Biology and History
- Epilogue: Modern Error
- Index