Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment : liberty, patriotism, and the common good / edited by Hans Blom, John Christian Laursen, and Luisa Simonutti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laursen, John Christian.

Simonutti, Luisa.

Blom, H. W. (Hans Willem), 1947-

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

UCLA Center/Clark series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monarchy--History--18th century.

Monarchy.

Monarchy--History--17th century.

Enlightenment.

enlightenment (18th-century western movement).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

x, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.

Summary:

"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 many thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in fact, saw monarchy as a solution to the instability, chaos, and even violence of experiments with republican government. Editors Hans Blom, John Christian Laursen, and Luisa Simonutti have brought together outstanding scholars in the field to correct many of the misleading stereotypes about monarchy, and to explore the variety and dynamism of this form of government, in early-modern Europe. Contributors explore four major themes: monarchisms in the political thought of Spinoza, Bayle, Fénelon, Hume, and Montesquieu; enlightened Christian and millenarian monarchisms; defending and resisting absolute monarchy; and, finally, reflections on the British monarchy."--Pub. description.

Contents:

1. Spinoza on Res Publica, republics, and monarchies / Hans Blom

2. 'Absolute, not arbitrary, power' : monarchism and politics in the thought of the Huguenots and Pierre Bayle / Luisa Simonutti

3. Bayle and Hume on monarchy, scepticism, and forms of government / Sally Jenkinson

4. Fenelon's 'republican' monarchism in Telemachus / Patrick Riley

5. Free trade, free speech, and free love : monarchy from the liberal prospect in mid-eighteenth century France / Michael Mosher

6. Caesar Augustus in Vico's New science : monarchy as remedy for democracy / George Wright

7. 'Everything must be redone' : Condillac as critic of despotism and defender of toleration / Gianni Paganini

8. The fifth monarchy redux / Richard Popkin

9. Defending monarchism in Denmark-Norway in the eighteenth century / Henrik Horstboll

10. Popular philosophy and absolute monarchy / Johan Van Der Zande

11. The Prussian monarchy and the practices of enlightenment / Michael Sauter

12. Theorizing enlightened absolutism : the Swiss republican origins of Prussian monarchism / Simone Zurbuchen

13. Intellectual resistance to absolute monarchy in eighteenth-century Prussia : Castillon's translation of Blount's Philostratus / John Christian Laursen

14. Monarchy in the name of Britain : the case of George III / J.G.A. Pocock.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment.

ISBN:

9780802091772

0802091776

OCLC:

72261622