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Condorcet: Writings on the United States

Condorcet: Writings on the United States

Ansart, Guillaume

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PhilosophyLetters & EssaysGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0271053828
ISBN13: 9780271053820
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jun 15 2016
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Condorcet (1743-1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution. Condorcet's writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new political culture emerging in the United States constitute milestones in the history of French political thought and of French attitudes toward the United States. These remarkable texts, however, have not been available in modern editions or translations. This book presents first or new translations of all of Condorcet's major writings on the United States, including an essay on the impact of the American Revolution on Europe; a commentary on the Federal Constitution, the first such commentary to be published in the Old World; and his Eulogy of Franklin, in which Condorcet paints a vivid picture of his recently deceased friend as the archetype of the new American man: self-made, practical, talented but modest, tolerant and free of prejudice--the embodiment of reason, common sense, and the liberal values of the Enlightenment.

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