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020 $a9781107021013 (hardback)
020 $a9781107605398 (paperback)
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050 00 $aJC179$b.C662813 2012
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100 1 $aCondorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat,$cmarquis de,$d1743-1794.
240 10 $aSelections.$lEnglish.$f2012
245 10 $aCondorcet :$bpolitical writings /$c[edited by] Steven Lukes, Nadia Urbinati.
246 30 $aPolitical writings
260 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1204
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCambridge texts in the history of political thought
520 $a"Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), the innovating founder of mathematical thinking in politics, was the last great philosophe of the French Enlightenment and a central figure in the early years of the French Revolution. His political writings give a compelling vision of human progress across world history and express the hopes of that time in the future perfectibility of man. This volume contains a revised translation of 'The Sketch', written while in hiding from the Jacobin Terror, together with lesser-known writings on the emancipation of women, the abolition of slavery, the meanings of freedom and despotism and reflections on revolutionary violence. The introduction by Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati sets these works in context and shows why Condorcet is of real interest today as we reinterpret the meaning of Enlightenment, the very idea of progress and the founding ideas of social democracy"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Editors' introduction; Published works by Condorcet; Suggestions for further reading; Principal events in Condorcet's life; Notes on the texts; 1. The Sketch; 2. On slavery; 3. On the emancipation of women; 4. On despotism; 5. On freedom; 6. On revolution; 7. Advice to his daughter and testament; Index.
650 0 $aPolitical science$vEarly works to 1800.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aLukes, Steven.
700 1 $aUrbinati, Nadia,$d1955-
700 12 $aCondorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat,$cmarquis de,$d1743-1794.$tEsquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain.$lEnglish.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/21013/cover/9781107021013.jpg