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The Post-Revolutionary Self : Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 / Jan GOLDSTEIN.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674016804
  • 9780674037786
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.2094409033
LOC classification:
  • RC450.F7 -- G65 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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, state-run pedagogical project to replace sensationalism with a new psychology that showcased an indivisible and actively willing self, or moi. As conceived and executed by Victor Cousin, this long-lived project singled out the male bourgeoisie for training in selfhood --Cousin and his disciples deemed workers and women incapable of the introspective finesse necessary to appropriate that self in practice.
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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

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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, state-run pedagogical project to replace sensationalism with a new psychology that showcased an indivisible and actively willing self, or moi. As conceived and executed by Victor Cousin, this long-lived project singled out the male bourgeoisie for training in selfhood --Cousin and his disciples deemed workers and women incapable of the introspective finesse necessary to appropriate that self in practice.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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