The Limits of Reform in the Enlightenment :Attitudes Toward the Education of the Lower Classes in Eighteenth-Century France ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle :Attitudes Toward the Education of the Lower Classes in Eighteenth-Century France

Publication series :Princeton Legacy Library

Author: Chisick Harvey;;;  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400853496

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691053059

Subject: G4 Education;G40-09 教育学史、教育思想史

Keyword: 教育

Language: ENG

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Examining the attitudes toward the education of the lower classes in eighteenth- century France, Harvey Chisick uncovers severe limitations to enlightened social thought.

Originally published in 1981.

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Chapter

Acknowledgments

Note on Usage

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Problem: Enlightenment Values and the Unenlightened Masses

Some Considerations on Sources in the History of Ideas

I The Elements of the Problem

Whose Attitudes? The Enlightened Community

Education

The People

II The Debate on Popular Education to 1769

The Examen of the Abbé Terrisse

The Debate Opens

The Dangers of Education and the Jansenist Imperative

The Emergence of the Dominant Enlightenment View of Popular Instruction: A "Fitting" Education

III The Debate: 1770-1789

The People and the Purpose of Their Education

The Skills of Literacy

Popular Literacy: Limits and Reservations

Moral and Religious Education

Occupational Instruction

Physical Training

IV The Climate of Opinion in France: 1762-1789

A Crisis Mentality

Elements of the Crisis

The Response to the Crisis

V The Impasse: Images of the People and the Limits of Reform

Toward Redefinition: The Poverty-Stricken And Productive Masses

Persistence: Classes Laborieuses, Classes Dangereuses

The Conditions of Existence: Misère and Peine

Changing Attitudes: Sympathy and Idealization

The Elitism of the Enlightenment: The Viability of the Old Regime and the People-Condition

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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