Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: The Propriety of Liberty; CHAPTER ONE: 'That glorious fabrick of liberty': John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency; CHAPTER TWO: Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu's Political Theory of Moderation; CHAPTER THREE: 'The True Propriety of Language': Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith's Political Theory; CHAPTER FOUR: Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Facing the Future; 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy; 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World; 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Foreign trade and national models -- Montesquieu's science of commerce -- Philosophical history -- Finances and the empire of climate -- Physiocracy and the politics of history -- Center, periphery, and commerce national -- L'affaire des colonies and the fall of the monarchy.…”

Table of Contents: “…Historical overview : preliminaries, principles, and preconceptions -- Science and the triumph of reason : Newton, Locke, and a new philosophy -- The philosophes, the church, and Christianity -- The philosophes, political thought, and enlightened despotism -- The alternative vision of Montesquieu and Rousseau.…”

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Preface; States of War; Introduction; The Autonomous State andthe Origin of the Political; States of Reasoning; Locke's Natural History of the Political; Systems of Sovereignty in Montesquieu; Rousseau's Cybernetic Political Body; Conclusion; Notes; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Adam Smith and a New Public ImaginationPART III. REVISITING LOCKE, MONTESQUIEU, AND SMITH; 10. Capitalism and the Moral Sentiments; 11. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Cardinal Richelieu -- Cardinal Mazarin -- Cardinal de Retz -- Father Lacordaire with poem -- Montesquieu -- Madame Récamier -- Saint-Evremond and Ninon de l'Enclos -- Lord Chesterfield -- Adrienne Le couvreur -- Milton and poetry -- Thackery -- Epilogue on Lord Lytton. …”

Table of Contents: “…Bayle's republic of atheists -- 15. Montesquieu's pluralized civil religion -- 16. The Straussian rejection of the enlightenment as applied to Bayle and Montesquieu - 17. …”

Table of Contents: “…Politics and nature in Montesquieu -- Husserl's conception of the life-world -- Kant and Heidegger: transcendental alternatives to Aristotle -- Wittgenstein, Strauss, and the possibility of philosophy -- Moore on common sense -- Austin and ordinary language -- What do we talk about? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Discourse and heterogeneity : situating orientalism -- Travel narratives and orientalism : Montagu and Montesquieu -- Orient as woman, orientalism as sentimentalism: Flaubert -- Orientalism as literary criticism : the reception of E.M. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- The spirits of laws / by Baron de Montesquieu. -- The social contract / by J.J. Rousseau. -- Selections from "The Federalist" / by Alexander Hamilton. -- Selected writings on democracy / by Thomas Jefferson. -- The state: its historic role / by Peter Kropotkin. -- The state and revolution / by Nikolai Lenin. -- Addresses on the League of Nations / by Woodrow Wilson.…”

Table of Contents: “…Three aphorisms from Denis Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts, 1746; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; and Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 -- 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: a familial fulcrum -- Contemporary liberalism, human nature, and the family -- Marxism, collectivism, and the family -- Ayn Rand, individualism, and the family -- Montesquieu, Burke, and the moderate family -- Family forms and the social individual -- Conclusion: political moderation and the familial fulcrum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The legal identity of the Global South : Narrative and comparative law -- Comparative instrumental studies : Montesquieu, geography and law -- Comparative legislative studies : H.S. …”

Table of Contents: “…Plato: the political psychology of tyranny -- Aristotle: tyranny as unnatural -- Tacitus: tyranny as a politics of pretense -- Machiavelli: defeating princely tyrannies -- Montesquieu's two theories of despotism: fearing monarchs and merchants -- Tocqueville: the pleasures of servitude -- Marx: despotism of class and workplace -- Freud: the reproduction of tyranny -- Weber: the inevitability of bureaucratic domination -- Fromm, Neumann, and Arendt: three early interpretations of Nazi Germany.…”

Table of Contents: “…Republics, monarchies and the philosophy of human society -- Rousseau and the origins of the 'current malaise of the world' -- Montesquieu's system and reforms in Russia -- The Bildung of humanity and modern virtue -- German freedom and modern liberty -- The vocation of poets, pastors and philosophers -- State-machines, commerce and the progress of humanität in Europe -- Perpetual peace and purified patriotism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Prominent searchers in the past -- A pedagogy of the heart: Saint Bonaventure's spiritual itinerary -- Walking humbly with your God: Jñanadev and the Warkari movement -- Wise ignorance: Nicolaus of Cusa's search for truth -- The natural theology of the Chinese: Leibniz and Confucianism -- Montesquieu's Persian letters: a timely classic -- Beautiful freedom: Schiller on the aesthetic education of humanity -- Pedagogy for our troubled times -- Why the classics today? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Moderation and Political LibertyPenal Moderation and Montesquieu's Theory of Jurisprudence; Fiscal Moderation; The Constitutional Framework of Moderate Government; The Good Legislator and the spirit of Moderation; How Can democratic and Aristocratic regimes Be Moderated?…”
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Table of Contents: “…The rule of the wise and the holy : Thomas Aquinas -- The idea of the national republic : John Milton -- A constitution for the national republic : James Harrington -- The conflict of ideas -- The decade of agitation -- The discovery of the nation -- Montesquieu's confederate republic -- Madison's compound republic -- Auxiliary precautions -- Sovereignty and ratification -- James Wilson's social union -- Conclusion : liberty and union.…”