Social equality in Pierre-Louis Rœderer's interpretation of the modern republic, 1793

Scurr, Ruth

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“…According to Roederer, landed property is not a unique source of wealth since it requires mobile property such as labour and capital in order to produce wealth. 102 By framing the discourse on natural sociability in the economic perspective, Roederer conceived a new social order in which self-interest, manifested in an economy organised around division of labour, constituted the basis of political participation. 103 By attacking the core idea of the physiocratic school as an economist, Roederer paradoxically gave a political connotation to the notion of liberty.…”

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Apology of Liberty inLettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau: Mme de Staël's Contribution to the Discourse on Natural Sociability

Takeda¹

2007

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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This article analyses Mme de Staël's ideas on liberty as they were expressed in Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau of 1788 -1789. Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau was a reaction to highly polemical debates on liberty that originated in the discourse on natural sociability and that existed in the Parisian salon society between the 1770s and 1780s. Staël combined the two opposing philosophical and economic viewpoints, by the philosophes and Rousseau on the one hand and by Necker and the economists on the other, into a set of liberal values applicable to a new political era despite some self-contradictions. As such, Staël sustained the intellectual legacy of the French enlightenment into revolutionary France.

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Apology of Liberty inLettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau: Mme de Staël's Contribution to the Discourse on Natural Sociability

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2007

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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“…On Roederer's political and social thought seeForsyth (1989),Rademacher (2001),Scurr (2000;,Verjus (2002Verjus ( , 2004 andSonenscher (2007) Chappey (2003). discusses Roederer's ideas and experiences with the freedom of press under the Directory and under Napoleon.…”

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The Adam Smith Review

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2020

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This review is included in the 8-volume collected works that were published between 1853 and 1859 by Roederer's son. The Archives Nationales hold an extensive collection of Roederer's manuscripts, correspondence and other papers (Series AP Archives privées, 29 AP 1-120), which have not been consulted in preparation of this paper. All translations from French sources are my own. 2 This translation was published in Paris by Briasson under the title Métaphysique de l'âme, ou Théorie des sentiments moraux (see Raphael and Macfie in Smith 1976: 30 and Faccarello and Steiner 2002: 64, 70 n.2). The second translation, published as Théorie des sentiments moreaux, was by the abbé Jean-Louis Blavet. A further translation was commenced in 1774 by Louis-Alexandre de la Rochfoucauld, but this remained incomplete and unpublished.

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“…After the collapse of the monarchy and execution of Louis XVI, he delivered a series of public lectures at the Lycée in Paris, attempting to analyse the extent of spontaneous social cohesion and the corresponding need to supplement it with effective political institutions (Margerison, 1983, pp. 94–113; Scurr, 2000). He already feared for France.…”

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Pierre-Louis Rœderer and the Debate on Forms of Government in Revolutionary France

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2004

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The French Revolution raised the problem of how to construct a modern republic under conditions of acute political conflict. The debate over the forms of government was at its most intense before the outbreak of the Terror in 1793, when there seemed to be no alternative to instituting a republic, but there was serious disagreement over what this entailed. The problem was considered in terms of the political thought of Hobbes, Locke, Bayle, Voltaire, Helvetius, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Sieyès. The urgent political and constitutional need to reconcile accountable with effective government was central to the use made of both inherited and new ideas about the republican form of government. This parallels Madison's concern to reconcile accountable with effective government during the constitutional debates of the American Revolution.

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Social equality in Pierre-Louis Rœderer's interpretation of the modern republic, 1793

Cited by 33 publications

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Apology of Liberty inLettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau: Mme de Staël's Contribution to the Discourse on Natural Sociability

Apology of Liberty inLettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau: Mme de Staël's Contribution to the Discourse on Natural Sociability

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Pierre-Louis Rœderer and the Debate on Forms of Government in Revolutionary France

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