Author(s): Steven Lukes, Nadia Urbinati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Commentary: More best quality
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Condorcet: published works
Principal events in Condorcet’s life
Notes on the texts
Editors’ introduction
Life
The Esquisse
A democratic theory of liberty
Emancipation
Direct and indirect despotism
Equal liberty
Emergency and revolution
Reception
Conclusion
References
Suggestions for further reading
The Sketch
Introduction
The first epoch
Men are united in tribes
The second epoch
Pastoral peoples: the transition from this stage to that of agricultural peoples
The third epoch
The progress of agricultural peoples up to the invention of the alphabet
The fourth epoch
The progress of the human mind in Greece up to the division of the sciences about the time of Alexander the Great
The fifth epoch
The progress of the sciences from their division to their decline
The sixth epoch
The decadence of knowledge to its restoration about the time of the Crusades
The seventh epoch
The early progress of science from its revival in the West to the invention of printing
The eighth epoch
From the invention of printing to the time when philosophy and the sciences shook off the yoke of authority
The ninth epoch
From Descartes to the foundation of the French Republic
The tenth epoch
The future progress of the human mind
On slavery. Rules for the Society of the Friends of Negroes (1788)
Preamble
On the emancipation of women. On giving women the right of citizenship (1790)
On despotism. Thoughts on despotism (1789)
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VII
VIII
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XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
On freedom. On the meaning of the words ‘freedom’, ‘free’, ‘a free man’, ‘a free people’ (1793–94)
On revolution. On the meaning of the word ‘revolutionary’ (1793)
Advice to his daughter (written in hiding March 1794)
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IV
V
Condorcet’s testament (written in hiding March 1794)
Index
