Condorcet

Writings on the United States

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution. Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new political culture emerging in the United States constitute milestones in the history of French political thought and of French attitudes toward the United States. These remarkable texts, however, have not been available in modern editions or translations. This book presents first or new translations of all of Condorcet’s major writings on the United States, including an essay on the impact of the American Revolution on Europe; a commentary on the Federal Constitution, the first such commentary to be published in the Old World; and his Eulogy of Franklin, in which Condorcet paints a vivid picture of his recently deceased friend as the archetype of the new American man: self-made, practical, talented but modest, tolerant and free of prejudice—the embodiment of reason, common sense, and the liberal values of the Enlightenment.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271053820

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Guillaume Ansart is Associate Professor of French Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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“The volume is a vital, genuinely original contribution to the literature on Condorcet's political thought—and how he applied his general views on republicanism and constitutionalism to the case of the United States—as well as on early European responses to American constitutional development.”—Eileen Botting, University of Notre Dame

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ContentsTranslator’s Note and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Condorcet and AmericaInfluence of the American Revolution on Europe (1786)IntroductionChapter One: Influence of the American Revolution on the Opinions and Legislation of EuropeChapter Two: On the Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Preservation of Peace in EuropeChapter Three: Benefits of the American Revolution with Respect to the Perfectibility of the Human RaceChapter Four: On the Good That the American Revolution Can Do, Through Trade, to Europe and to France in ParticularConclusionSupplement to Filippo Mazzei’s Researches on the United States (1788)Ideas on Despotism: For the Benefit of Those Who Pronounce This Word Without Understanding It (1789)Eulogy of Franklin: Read at the Public Session of the Academy of Sciences, November 13, 1790 (1790)Appendix: Notes to the French Translation of John Stevens’s Observations on Government (1789)ChronologyNotesSelected Bibliography in EnglishIndex of Proper Names