Minerva's Message: Stabilizing the French RevolutionIn theory the CMPS was set up to enshrine the human and social studies that were at the heart of Enlightenment culture. Staum illustrates, however, that the Institute helped transform key ideas of the Enlightenment in order to maintain civil rights while upholding social stability, and that the social and political assumptions on which it was based affected notions of social science. He traces the careers of individual members and the factions within the Institute, arguing that the discord within the CMPS reflects the unravelling of Enlightenment culture. Minerva's Message presents a valuable overview of the intellectual life of the period and brings together new evidence about the social sciences in their nascent period. |
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Intellectuals Revolution and the Social Sciences | 3 |
Enlightenment Social Science Models | 19 |
Change and Continuity | 33 |
Advice to Government and Prize Contests | 56 |
The Public Image of the Institute and the Decline | 78 |
Indelible Temperament and Condillacs Uncertain | 95 |
A Science of Morality | 118 |
Philosophical History and Political Discord | 136 |
Correlating Climate Culture | 154 |
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