Beginning with a fresh consideration of the place of sensationalism in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, Jan Goldstein traces a post-Revolutionary politics of selfhood that reserved the Cousinian "moi" for the educated elite, outraged Catholics and consigned socially marginal groups to the ministrations of phrenology. Situating the Cousinian "moi" between the fragmented selves of eighteenth-century sensationalism and twentieth-century Freudianism, Goldstein suggests that the resolutely unitary self of the nineteenth century was only an interlude tailored to the needs of the post-Revolutionary bourgeois order.
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Beginning with a fresh consideration of the place of sensationalism in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, Jan Goldstein traces a post-Revolutionary politics of selfhood that reserved the Cousinian "moi" for the educated elite, outraged Catholics and consigned socially marginal groups to the ministrations of phrenology. Situating the Cousinian "moi" between the fragmented selves of eighteenth-century sensationalism and twentieth-century Freudianism, Goldstein suggests that the resolutely unitary self of the nineteenth century was only an interlude tailored to the needs of the post-Revolutionary bourgeois order.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 2005 |
Authors | Jan Goldstein |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 430 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-02769-5 |
Barcode | 9780674027695 |
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LSN | 0-674-02769-8 |