Alexandra SippelUniversité Paris Cité | Paris 5
Alexandra Sippel
PhD Intellectual History (18th-19th-c Britain)
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I am currently researching how the new economic theories of political economy (were) circulated in the early nineteenth century. I use the methods of intellectual history.
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This paper analyses Jane Marcet’s lessons about foreign trade in her two main pedagogical volumes. A disciple and friend of all the major thinkers who turned political economy into a science commanding as much respect as Newton’s, Marcet was a mouthpiece of choice to spread the word to the ladies, and then to the working classes. E.P. Thompson, amo...
This article focuses on how John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) embraced gender equality as a central part of his cooperative model society in Hampden in the Nineteenth Century (1834). At a time when early industrial capitalism and political economy appeared to loosen the social fabric and to contribute to widening the gap between the rich and the poor,...
Alors que Mary Wollstonecraft et William Godwin, radicaux jacobins de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, avaient pris position pour l’extension de l’éducation et des droits civils aux femmes, le début du XIXe siècle vit au contraire leurs droits limités. Si l’on connaît bien le rôle du philosophe libéral John Stuart Mill dans la théorisation de l’asservissem...
The 2014 volume addressed “Measure and Excess” in a variety of perspectives ranging from human temper to literary genres, from barbarian mores to the luxury of the opera, and from population counts to the severity of laws. For its 40th anniversary in 2015, the Society chose as its main focus of interest those of modest means, the middling sort of p...
This paper intends to show that John Minter Morgan resorts to idealised visions of Antiquity―the Greek and Roman Republics and Lycurgus’s Sparta―to promote Owenism as the path to a truly happy society based on equality of condition at a time when inequalities were fuelled by a new economic and industrial model. In his utopia set near Owen’s factori...
The question of how to regulate population in a utopia is most often addressed in terms of social control to ensure that all inhabitants abide by the rules that guarantee the community’s preservation. Wallace raises a different and original issue in his Various Prospects. Despite the admiration he voices for ancient and modern utopists and their eq...
French Socialists currently appear less and less convinced of the relevance of rejecting today's consumption-oriented society and turn increasingly to more center-left models in order to refound their party. ( Refoundation is one of the most frequently used terms within the party.) Therefore, it is instructive to go back to the eighteenth-century r...
