The Abbé Grégoire and his World

1. Front Matter

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2. Grégoire and the Anthropology of Emancipation

   • Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink

   Pages 1-12

3. The Abbé Grégoire’s Program for the Jews: Social Reform and Spiritual Project

   • Rita Hermon-Belot

   Pages 13-26

4. The Abbé Grégoire and the Société des Amis des Noirs

   • Marcel Dorigny

   Pages 27-39

5. Exporting the Revolution: Grégoire, Haiti and the Colonial Laboratory, 1815–1827

   • Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

   Pages 41-69

6. The Abbé Grégoire and the Quest for a Catholic Republic

   • Dale Van Kley

   Pages 71-107

7. Tearing Down the Tower of Babel: Grégoire and French Multilingualism

   • David A. Bell

   Pages 109-128

8. The Paradoxes of Vandalism: Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian Discourse on Historical Monuments

   • Anthony Vidler

   Pages 129-156

9. Grégoire’s American Involvements

   • Richard H. Popkin

   Pages 157-166

10. Grégoire as Autobiographer

    • Jeremy D. Popkin

    Pages 167-181

11. Afterword — Discovering the Abbé Grégoire

    • Richard H. Popkin

    Pages 183-186

12. Back Matter

    Pages 187-197

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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

• French revolution
• Henri Grégoire
• Revolution

`Altogether this is an important and useful collection which underlines how unjustly neglected this fascinating figure has been until recently.'
William Doyle, University of Bristol in English Historical Review, 117:473 (2002)
`[...]the Abbé Grégoire and His World will become required reading for all those who seek to understand the Revolution, its protagonists, and our indebtedness to both.'
Frances Malino, Wellesley College in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 40:2 (2002)

• University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

  Jeremy D. Popkin

• Washington University, St. Louis, USA

  Richard H. Popkin

• UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

  Richard H. Popkin

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