Republicanism and the French Revolution
An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 November 2000
- ISBN 9780199241156
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 244x163x20 mm
- Weight 537 g
- Language English 20
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Short description:
Republicanism and the French Revolution provides a new interpretation of political thought and political economy in France from the death of Louis XVI to the July Revolution of 1830. The clash between modern republicanism and other theories of governing societies, typified by the antagonism between French and British intellectuals, is the background to a thorough reinterpretation of the life and writings of Jean-Baptiste Say, the most famous political economist of the post-revolutionary era.
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Republicanism 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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Reinterpreting Say
The J.-B. Say problem
Republicanism and political economy
Part II The Intellectual Context of Say's Ideas
The political economy of French decline
The republican turn in France, 1776-1789
Revolution and the political economy of Terror
Part III Republican Political Economy
Say's republicanism, 1794-1798
The idea of a Traité d'économie politique
Defending republican manners
Restoring French glory
Part IV Republican Political Economy in Conditions of Monarchy
Rejecting the post-war settlement
'Social science in its entirety'
Conclusion
