A Note on Animal and Political Economy in Quesnay

Andrew Billing, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Macalester College. His principal research interests include Enlightenment political and moral philosophy and political economy, Rousseau, 18th-century French literature, and critical and political theory. He has published articles, book chapters, and reviews in these areas and is currently completing a book on the animal–human relation in 18th-century French philosophy and literature. With Juliette Cherbuliez of the University of Minnesota, he recently edited a special edition of L’Esprit créateur titled Paris, Imagined Capital: Economic Transition and Modernity (17th to 19th Centuries).
CONTACT Andrew Billing, Ph. D. Department of French and Francophone Studies, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105–1899.