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OverviewRepublicanism and the French Revolution reassesses Jean-Baptiste Say's political economy by locating the author's ideas amidst the intellectual upheavals of Old Regime and revolutionary France. Traditionally Say has been portrayed as a rather staid figure, the archetypal liberal and classical political economist devoted to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. This study reveals the historic Say to have been altogether different; a passionate and committed republican intellectual and French patriot, he was as opposed to Britain's constitution, commerce, and political culture as he was to Bonaparte's First Empire. The relationship between Say's political thought and political economy, evinced in the full range of his writings from 1789 to 1832, is scrutinized for the first time, elucidating the true origins of his republicanism. This derived from a rich seam of political speculation among French and Genevan radicals concerning the possibility of transforming large and corrupt monarchies into modern republics whose political culture was characterized by commerce and virtue. By the 1790s such ideas had come to define the French Revolution itself, at once promising to restore French greatness and replace Britain as the leading cultural force in Europe. Say looked back to such luminaries as Diderot, Gibbon, and Franklin as members of the modern republican Pantheon and dedicated his life to formulating a political economy that would persuade legislators and ordinary citizens to embrace the republican creed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard Whatmore (Lecturer in Intellectual History, Lecturer in Intellectual History, University of Sussex)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.537kg ISBN: 9780199241156ISBN 10: 0199241155 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 02 November 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I. Reinterpreting Say 1: The J.-B. Say problem 2: Republicanism and political economy Part II The Intellectual Context of Say's Ideas 3: The political economy of French decline 4: The republican turn in France, 1776-1789 5: Revolution and the political economy of Terror Part III Republican Political Economy 6: Say's republicanism, 1794-1798 7: The idea of a Traite d'economie politique 8: Defending republican manners 9: Restoring French glory Part IV Republican Political Economy in Conditions of Monarchy 10: Rejecting the post-war settlement 11: 'Social science in its entirety' 12: ConclusionReviewsWhatmore advances his clear and closely argued interpretation of Say through a most impressive range of textual evidence ... This accomplished book will prove challenging and instructive to an extremely wide circle of historians of ideas. History of European Ideas An important contribution to a much bigger field ... this takes us into the entire background of French Revolutionary republicanism. Times Literary Supplement Whatmore advances his clear and closely argued interpretation of Say through a most impressive range of textual evidence ... This accomplished book will prove challenging and instructive to an extremely wide circle of historians of ideas. History of European Ideas An important contribution to a much bigger field ... this takes us into the entire background of French Revolutionary republicanism. Times Literary Supplement `Whatmore's observations are illuminating' William Baumol, Department of Economics, New York University, EH.NET `an important contribution to a much bigger field ... this takes us into the entire background of French Revolutionary republicanism' Richard Whatmore, TLS Author Information1989-90, Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow, Harvard University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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