This book proposes, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of the Philosophie sociale, published in Paris in 1793 by Moses Dobruska (1753-1794). Dobruska was a businessman, scholar, and social philosopher, born into a Jewish family in Moravia, who converted to Catholicism, gai…
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Moses Dobruska: Rise and Fall of an Alternative Hero -- 3 The Philosophie Sociale of 1793: A New Thought -- 4 Man and Society -- 5 Democracy, Aristocracy, or Monarchy? Representative Democracy -- 6 Happiness -- 7…
Moses Dobruska, born as a Jew in Brno, Moravia in 1753, died on the guillotine in Paris in 1794. His life was adventurous, but the biography is not enough to understand the creative force of this atypical intellectual. Silvana Greco, sociologist of culture and Judaism, brings to…