Cell theory, economics,and the Republic in the work of François-Vincent Raspail around1830

Théorie cellulaire, science économique et République dans l'œuvre de François-Vincent Raspail autour de 1830

Ludovic Frobert ()
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Ludovic Frobert: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: François-Vincent Raspail (1794–1878) was one of the leading Republican heroes of nineteenth-century France. His political involvement began just after the 1830 Revolution; he played a prominent role in the Société des amis du peuple, then in the Société des droits de l'homme. During the 1830s he spent many months in Louis-Philippe's jails. But Raspail was also a chemist and a physiologist who in 1833 published an important New Treatise on Organic Chemistry in which he put forward major advances in cell theory and the development of life. Simultaneously he founded a political newspaper, Le Réformateur, in which, in 1834–1835, he presented his plan for a general social and political reform in weekly installments. He wrote about thirteen articles "On Economic Science." I present in this paper an analysis of this completely unknown set of articles and underline the intellectual and conceptual transfers between chemistry, politics and economics in Raspail's thought around 1830.

Keywords: 1830-183; republican idea; economics; cell theory; idée républicaine; science économique; théorie cellulaire; 1830-1835; François-Vincent Raspail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 2011, 63 (1), pp.27-58. ⟨10.3917/rhs.641.0027⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rhs.641.0027

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