{"product_id":"post-revolutionary-self-jan-goldstein-9780674027695","title":"Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the French Revolution, as attempts to restore political stability to France repeatedly failed, a group of concerned intellectuals identified a likely culprit: the prevalent sensationalist psychology, and especially the flimsy and fragmented self it produced. They proposed a vast, state-run pedagogical project to replace sensationalism with a new psychology that showcased an indivisible and actively willing self, or \u003ci\u003emoi\u003c\/i\u003e. As conceived and executed by Victor Cousin, a derivative philosopher but an academic entrepreneur of genius, this long-lived project singled out the male bourgeoisie for training in selfhood. Granting everyone a self in principle, Cousin and his disciples deemed workers and women incapable of the introspective finesse necessary to appropriate that self in practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with a fresh consideration of the place of sensationalism in the Old Regime and the French Revolution, Jan Goldstein traces a post-Revolutionary politics of selfhood that reserved the Cousinian \u003ci\u003emoi\u003c\/i\u003e for the educated elite, outraged Catholics and consigned socially marginal groups to the ministrations of phrenology. Situating the Cousinian \u003ci\u003emoi\u003c\/i\u003e between the fragmented selves of eighteenth-century sensationalism and twentieth-century Freudianism, Goldstein suggests that the resolutely unitary self of the nineteenth century was only an interlude tailored to the needs of the post-Revolutionary bourgeois order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674027698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674027695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.24w x 1.00d","brand":"Jan Goldstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120020844799,"sku":"9780674027695","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17d8c287-7ea8-4dbd-a260-a20bff5a27e3.jpg?v=1687412131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/post-revolutionary-self-jan-goldstein-9780674027695","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}