The Abbe Gregoire and His World

by Popkin, Jeremy D.; Popkin, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9780792362470
• ISBN10: 0792362470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbé Henri Grégoire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction / The Abbe Gregoire: A Hero for Our Times?	ix
Jeremy D. Popkin
Gregoire and the Anthropology of Emancipation	1	(12)
Hans-Jurgen Luebrink
The Abbe Gregoire's Program for the Jews: Social Reform and Spiritual Project	13	(14)
Rita Hermon-Belot
The Abbe Gregoire and the Societe des Amis des Noirs	27	(14)
Marcel Dorigny
Exporting the Revolution: Gregoire, Haiti and the Colonial Laboratory, 1815--1827	41	(30)
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
The Abbe Gregoire and the Quest for a Catholic Republic	71	(38)
Dale Van Kley
Tearing Down the Tower of Babel: Gregoire and French Multilingualism	109	(20)
David A. Bell
The Paradoxes of Vandalism: Henri Gregoire and the Thermidorian Discourse on Historical Monuments	129	(28)
Anthony Vidler
Gregoire's American Involvements	157	(10)
Richard H. Popkin
Gregoire as Autobiographer	167	(16)
Jeremy D. Popkin
Afterword / Discovering the Abbe Gregoire	183	(4)
Richard H. Popkin
Index	187