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Georges Cuvier - Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France (Hardcover)
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Georges Cuvier - Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
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This book, first published in 1984, examines the lifetime of
Georges Cuvier, and in his constant and varying struggles to retain
his position both as a politician and as a leading naturalist we
find displayed almost all of the political tensions of Restoration
France. Our understanding of the new French intellectual elite is
enhanced if we can explain what sort of power this group wielded,
and how it related to the structure of politics as a whole.
Cuvier's career epitomises this relationship to the highest degree.
Examination of the building of his career under the Directory and
Empire offers many new insights into the way the expanding market
for science, the restructuring of society as a whole, and the moral
authority of science itself could be utilised as resources in the
making of a reputation. The influence of scientific competition and
controversy on Cuvier's scientific work is examined at length, and
it is argued that they exerted a decisive effect on the structure
of his biological and geological thinking.
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