| Popis: |
Who was the “Man” of the Declaration of Rights? Uncertainty reigns with regard to the definition and qualities of this Man, whose capital “M” alone concerns a part of the historiography of these last years. Is he the generic Man, the being gifted with the reason that Condorcet saw in him, or rather the man, “male”, the sexed being denounced by Olympe de Gouges? Is he the Man of nature, distinct from the citizen to which he is affixed in the title of the Declaration, or rather does the one extend into the other in order to constitute a single figure of the revolutionary individual? From 1789 until today, a multitude of interpretations, contradictory and complementary, have succeeded each other, trying to mark the margins, but also the rights and the attributes, of this Man placed at the foundation of modern democratic society. Drawing on recent contributions to the history of citizenship, and using little known materials, this article attempts to show that the Man of the Declaration, like the citizen, had his conceptual origins in the figure of the paterfamilias. |
