Cabanis and the politics of perfectibility

What is it about?

This is a review essay of Mariana Saad's 'Cabanis: Comprendre l'homme pour changer le monde' (2016). It explores the politics of perfectibility in the works of Pierre Cabanis and it suggests that his thought provides a new way of connecting the philosophy of the Enlightenment with early French socialism.

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Why is it important?

This essay offers an original assessment of Saad's recent monograph. It also proposes to expand on her work by highlighting a novel and compelling way of rethinking Cabanis' place in the history of the French Revolution and in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century intellectual history more generally.