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This anthology traces contemporary responses to some of the fundamental questions raised during the French Revolution concerning the world of social and political humankind. What is a constitution? What is the nature of sovereignty? Who are the people? What is the nation? What is the meaning of popular sovereignty, of national sovereignty? What is the origin and meaning of rights? Given differences in the abilities of individuals, is economic equality in society possible? Is it desirable? Is it really in the interest of the poor? What is their interest? What is the general interest, the common…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This anthology traces contemporary responses to some of the fundamental questions raised during the French Revolution concerning the world of social and political humankind. What is a constitution? What is the nature of sovereignty? Who are the people? What is the nation? What is the meaning of popular sovereignty, of national sovereignty? What is the origin and meaning of rights? Given differences in the abilities of individuals, is economic equality in society possible? Is it desirable? Is it really in the interest of the poor? What is their interest? What is the general interest, the common interest of society? Do commoners and the privileged share a common interest? Do the rich and the poor? If so, what is it? If not, how - to paraphrase Rousseau - is a moral society possible?
Autorenporträt
The Editor and Translator: Author of The People in French Counter-Revolutionary Thought (Peter Lang, 1988) and of the anthology (Peter Lang, 1997) of which the present volume is an abridgement, Marc Allan Goldstein is co-editor of Peter Lang's series Eighteenth Century Intellectual History and a member of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts where he teaches philosophy and history.