« Un Dogue de forte race »: Dupont de Nemours, ou la physiocratie réincarnée (1793-1807)

Julien Vincent
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Julien Vincent: IHMC - Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Abstract: In his Philosophie de l'univers, first published in 1793, Dupont de Nemours seemed to distance himself from his earlier works on political economy and to embark on a new career as a philosopher and a naturalist. Based on the twin ideas of metempsychosis and the chain of being, this theory of the universe offered a comparative study of animal intelligence, which he later developed in a series of memoirs in natural history. Far from retracting from his early interest in political economy, these works were part of an attempt to extend physiocracy to a new doctrine that explained the place of man in the universe and would help build a new theology for the new republican regime. According to this new philosophy, all living things were morally related to each other into a harmonious whole. Through his theory of reincarnation, the economist hoped that physiocracy would be reincarnated into a republican cosmology.

Keywords: animals; chemistry; cosmology; political economics; natural history; philosophy; physiocracy; republicanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-18
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Published in La Révolution française - Cahiers de l’Institut d’histoire de la Révolution française, 2018, Économie politique et Révolution française, 14, ⟨10.4000/lrf.2005⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/lrf.2005

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