Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy : : Utopia, Judaism, and Heresy under the French Revolution / / Silvana Greco.

This book proposes, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of the Philosophie sociale, published in Paris in 1793 by Moses Dobruska (1753-1794). Dobruska was a businessman, scholar, and social philosopher, born into a Jewish family in Moravia, who converted to Catholicism, gained wide recognition...

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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 225 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Moses Dobruska: Rise and Fall of an Alternative Hero
  • 3 The Philosophie Sociale of 1793: A New Thought
  • 4 Man and Society
  • 5 Democracy, Aristocracy, or Monarchy? Representative Democracy
  • 6 Happiness
  • 7 Reception and Influence of the Philosophie Sociale
  • 8 Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix 1: Glossary of the Universal Constitution
  • Appendix 2: The Seventy Principles of the Universal Constitution
  • Appendix 3: The German Draft of the Philosophie Sociale
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Concepts