It explores how five 18th-century liberal French political authors - Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de la Bretonne - constructed a "political zoology" informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history and physiology.
It explores how five 18th-century liberal French political authors - Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de la Bretonne - constructed a "political zoology" informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history and physiology.
Andrew Billing is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, who specializes in French Enlightenment literature, philosophy, and political thought. He completed his doctorate on Rousseau's political writings at the University of California, Irvine. He has articles published and forthcoming on Rousseau, Quesnay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Diderot, and other early modern French political authors, and co-edited a special volume of L'Esprit Créateur on Paris, capitalism and modernity with Juliette Cherbuliez.
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Acknowledgments French Enlightenment Political Zoology: A Definition "Political Zoology" as a Hybrid Science Disenchanting the Animal in French Enlightenment Political Rhetoric Enlightenment Anthropology and New Theories of animalité Empiricist Natural Science and the Critique of Political Absolutism An Emergent Eighteenth-Century French Liberalism 1 La Mettrie's Hybrid Medical and Political Science This Bold Analogy: La Mettrie, Descartes, and the Vicissitudes of the Animal-Machine Figure Machine Rhetoric and the Animal Economy in L'Homme Machine The Animal in La Mettrie's Anthropological Machine The Moral Sentiments, Natural Law, and the"Prerogatives of Animality" The Animal-Machine as Moral Image in the Discours sur le bonheur The Limits of La Mettrie's Liberalism: The Philosopher, the Sovereign, and the People in the Discours préliminaire 2 Political Economy as an Animal Economy in François Quesnay General and Particular Economics and the "great law of the natural order" Theorizing the Animal Economy in the Essai physique sur l'économie animale Animals, Representation, and Nature in Quesnay's Political Economy Quesnay's "Liberal Despotism": The Animal and the économie morale 3 The Animal in Question in Diderot's Moral and Political Philosophy Thinking Politics in an Animal Laboratory Diderot's Bee: Morality, Politics, and the Interpretation of Nature Animal and Human Morality in Diderot's Encylopédie Essays Beyond the Human: Diderot's Éléments de physiologie Animality, Anarchism, and The Nature of Happiness 4 Political Anthropology and Its Animal Other in Rousseau Animal Origins and Human Foundations in the Discours sur l'inégalité Liberty, Equality, and Human Specificity Rousseau's Moral Sentiments: Pity, "Love of Oneself," and the "Ferocious Beast" The Disappearance of the Compassionate Animal in Emile and the Essai sur l'origine des langues Rousseau's Primitivism: Ferocity as Amour de soi 5 Animality, Race, and "Liberal Empire" in Rétif de La Bretonne Rétif's Real and Perfect Republic: Liberalism Between Absolutism and Communism Rétif's Imperial Zoology: The Animal as Predator and Racialized Other A Politics Beyond the Predator/Prey Distinction? Patagonia and Megapatagonia Rétif's Imperial Desire: Promissory Liberalism and "Unequal Fraternity" "The inconceivable Animal-human": Animality, Race, and métissage in the Lettre d'un singe aux êtres de son espèce Conclusion Index
Acknowledgments French Enlightenment Political Zoology: A Definition "Political Zoology" as a Hybrid Science Disenchanting the Animal in French Enlightenment Political Rhetoric Enlightenment Anthropology and New Theories of animalité Empiricist Natural Science and the Critique of Political Absolutism An Emergent Eighteenth-Century French Liberalism 1 La Mettrie's Hybrid Medical and Political Science This Bold Analogy: La Mettrie, Descartes, and the Vicissitudes of the Animal-Machine Figure Machine Rhetoric and the Animal Economy in L'Homme Machine The Animal in La Mettrie's Anthropological Machine The Moral Sentiments, Natural Law, and the"Prerogatives of Animality" The Animal-Machine as Moral Image in the Discours sur le bonheur The Limits of La Mettrie's Liberalism: The Philosopher, the Sovereign, and the People in the Discours préliminaire 2 Political Economy as an Animal Economy in François Quesnay General and Particular Economics and the "great law of the natural order" Theorizing the Animal Economy in the Essai physique sur l'économie animale Animals, Representation, and Nature in Quesnay's Political Economy Quesnay's "Liberal Despotism": The Animal and the économie morale 3 The Animal in Question in Diderot's Moral and Political Philosophy Thinking Politics in an Animal Laboratory Diderot's Bee: Morality, Politics, and the Interpretation of Nature Animal and Human Morality in Diderot's Encylopédie Essays Beyond the Human: Diderot's Éléments de physiologie Animality, Anarchism, and The Nature of Happiness 4 Political Anthropology and Its Animal Other in Rousseau Animal Origins and Human Foundations in the Discours sur l'inégalité Liberty, Equality, and Human Specificity Rousseau's Moral Sentiments: Pity, "Love of Oneself," and the "Ferocious Beast" The Disappearance of the Compassionate Animal in Emile and the Essai sur l'origine des langues Rousseau's Primitivism: Ferocity as Amour de soi 5 Animality, Race, and "Liberal Empire" in Rétif de La Bretonne Rétif's Real and Perfect Republic: Liberalism Between Absolutism and Communism Rétif's Imperial Zoology: The Animal as Predator and Racialized Other A Politics Beyond the Predator/Prey Distinction? Patagonia and Megapatagonia Rétif's Imperial Desire: Promissory Liberalism and "Unequal Fraternity" "The inconceivable Animal-human": Animality, Race, and métissage in the Lettre d'un singe aux êtres de son espèce Conclusion Index
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