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Self-fashioning and rhetoric in the french revolution: Anacharsis Cloots, orator of the human race
Global Intellectual History. Published online 30 May 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976. ABSTRACT This article analyses what Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) meant when he chose the name Anacharsis and called himself ‘Orator of the human race’. It argues that it was an act of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, PhD
Tagged Anacharsis, Anacharsis Cloots, cloots, French revolution, rhetoric, self-fashioning
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The Education of Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) at the Berlin Académie militaire des nobles (1770–1773)
History of European Ideas. Published online 12 June 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615 https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615. ABSTRACT This article examines the education that Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) received during his stay at the Berlin Académie des nobles (1770–1773). Cloots wrote at several occasions about his education there, notably … Continue reading
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Tagged académie militaire, Anacharsis Cloots, education, Prussia
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Mortier — Le rêve universaliste de l’orateur du genre humain
Mortier, R. (2000). Le rêve universaliste de l’”Orateur du Genre humain”. In R. Mortier, Les Combats des Lumières (pp. 385-394). Paris: Aux amateurs de livres international. The Universalist idea was not something new or invented in the eighteenth century. However, … Continue reading
Avenel’s biography of Anacharsis Cloots
Avenel, Georges (1865), Anacharsis Cloots: L’orateur du genre humain, Paris : Librairie internationale. This is one of the very first biography existing on this not so well-known history character of the French Revolution, Anacharsis Cloots. The merit of this book is … Continue reading
