Citizens Without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789In a wide ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670 1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal history and economics to show how French thinkers sustained a sense of liberty and dignity within an authoritarian regime. A penetrating critique of those who exaggerate either the radicalism of the Enlightenment or the hegemony of the absolutist state, his