Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment : liberty, patriotism, and the common good

Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment : liberty, patriotism, and the common good /

In recent decades, historians of early-modern European political thought have tended to neglect the concept of monarchy and monarchism, focusing instead on the development of republicanism during this period. Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment aims to correct this imbalance by illustrating that...

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Other Authors: Laursen, John Christian (Editor), Simonutti, Luisa (Editor), Blom, Hans (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
Series:UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Monarchy > History > 18th century.
Monarchy > History > 17th century.
Enlightenment.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
HISTORY > Europe > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Enlightenment
Monarchy
Politisches Denken
Monarchie
Aufklärung
Republikanisme.
Absolutisme.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Monarchie.
Liberalisme.
Europa (geografie)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: MONARCHISMS AND REPUBLICANISMS IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SPINOZA, BAYLE, FÉNELON, HUME, AND MONTESQUIEU; 1. Spinoza on Res Publica, Republics, and Monarchies; 2. 'Absolute, Not Arbitrary, Power': Monarchism and Politics in the Thought of the Huguenots and Pierre Bayle; 3. Bayle and Hume on Monarchy, Scepticism, and Forms of Government; 4. Fénelon's 'Republican' Monarchism in Telemachus; 5. Free Trade, Free Speech, and Free Love: Monarchy from the Liberal Prospect in Mid-eighteenth Century France
  • PART II. ENLIGHTENED CHRISTIAN AND MILLENARIAN MONARCHISMS; 6. Caesar Augustus in Vico's New Science: Monarchy as Remedy for Democracy; 7. 'Everything Must Be Redone': Condillac as Critic of Despotism and Defender of Toleration; 8. The Fifth Monarchy Redux; PART III: DEFENDING AND RESISTING ABSOLUTE MONARCHY; 9. Defending Monarchism in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century; 10. Popular Philosophy and Absolute Monarchy; 11. The Prussian Monarchy and the Practices of Enlightenment
  • 12. Theorizing Enlightened Absolutism: The Swiss Republican Origins of Prussian Monarchism; 13. Intellectual Resistance to Absolute Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Castillon's Translation of Blount's Philostratus; PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY; 14. Monarchy in the Name of Britain: The Case of George III; Index.

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