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This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

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Introduction: placing Mably 2. A Royalist debut 3. About face: from the Parti des Modernes to the Parti des Anciens 4. Dialogues: conversations with Stanhope and Phocion 5. Contemporaries: communists, physiocrats, Rousseau 6. History: the politics of the French past 7. Last works: constitutions and the consolation of philosophy 8. Conclusion: classical Republicanism in eighteenth-century France Abbreviations Notes' Bibliography Index.

A Classical Republican in Eighteenthcentury

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/1997
      ISBN13: 9780804727891, 978-0804727891
      ISBN10: 0804727899

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: placing Mably 2. A Royalist debut 3. About face: from the Parti des Modernes to the Parti des Anciens 4. Dialogues: conversations with Stanhope and Phocion 5. Contemporaries: communists, physiocrats, Rousseau 6. History: the politics of the French past 7. Last works: constitutions and the consolation of philosophy 8. Conclusion: classical Republicanism in eighteenth-century France Abbreviations Notes' Bibliography Index.

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