Windischgrätz a Condorcet: příběh jednoho osvícenského projektu

• Authors: Ondo Grecenkova Martina

Title variants

EN

WINDISCHGRATZ AND CONDORCET: A TALE OF ONE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This microhistoric study researches the co-operation of two Enlightenment scholars, Joseph Nicholas the Count de Windischgrätz and the Marquis de Condorcet, on a joint project of the then popular political arithmetic, which aimed to apply a mathematical model upon political acts and thus ensure their precise and indisputable outcome. The academic competition, for which Count de Windischgrätz invited applications in the 1780s stimulated international discussions in which fifty scholars and politicians from different countries, including five important European Academies of Science and Learned Societies, participated. The correspondence network, which was established thanks to this Project, connected a large part of Europe and thus fulfilled the idea of a supranational and suprastate 'institution' of the Republic of the Learned. This study primarily focuses upon the manner in which this Project gained international recognition, and on the communication and exchange of academic works, information and opinions between its two main protagonists, Condorcet and Windischgrätz.

Keywords

EN

AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT; COMMUNICATION; CONDORCET; CORRESPONDENCE; ENLIGHTENMENT REFORMS; EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICATIONS; FRANCE'S RELATIONS - THE HAPSBURG MONARCHY; LAW; LEARNED SOCIETIES ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE; POLITICAL ARITHMENTIC; SCIENCE; WINDISCHGRATZ

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 569-598
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ondo Grecenkova Martina

• Martina Ondo Grecenkova, Historicky ustav AV CR, v. v. i., Prosecka 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA066824