Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Intellectuals, Revolution, and the Social Sciences 3
6. Enlightenment Social Science Models 19
7. The Institute Intellectuals: Change and Continuity 33
8. Advice to Government and Prize Contests 56
9. The Public Image of the Institute and the Decline of Encyclopedism 78
10. Indelible Temperament and Condillac’s Uncertain Legacy 95
11. A Science of Morality 118
12. Philosophical History and Political Discord 136
13. Human Geography: Correlating Climate, Culture, and Civilization 154
14. Rights, Utility, and Political Institutions 172
15. Towards the Political Economy of Commercial Society 191
16. Suppression and Resurrection of an Academy 211
17. Joseph Lakanal’s List of Nominees for the Class of Moral and Political Sciences for Consideration by the National Convention, October 1795 (cancelled by the Directory) 231
18. Members and Associates of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences, Established in 1795 232
19. The National Institute after the Reorganization of 1803 236
20. Members of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences Carried Over into the Revived Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1832 238
21. Number of Memoirs Read before the Class of Moral and Political Sciences and Published in Its Collection 240
22. Prize Contests of the Class of Moral and Political Sciences 244
23. Notes 251
24. Bibliography 301
25. Index 333