Description
Book SynopsisToleration, freedom of thought and liberation from social and intellectual convention have long been recognised as the basic tenets of Enlightenment thought and social morality.
Trade Review'Overall, this superb volume underscores how new nationalist beliefs absorbed and subsumed the republican tradition [...] the book can be fruitfully read by political theorists and intellectual historians alike for its erudite contents, and it is essential for scholars working on the republican tradition in early modern political thought.'
British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Table of ContentsForeword
P. M. Kitromilides, Reappraisals of Enlightenment political thought
I. Situating Enlightenment politics
Hans Blom, The republic’s nation: the transformation of civic virtue in the Dutch eighteenth century
Colin Kidd, Constitutions and character in the eighteenth-century British world
Anna Tabaki, Du théâtre philosophique au drame national: étude du lexique politique à travers l’ére des révolutions. Le cas grec
II. Enlightenment perspectives on inter-state relations
Georg Cavallar, ‘La société générale du genre humain’: Rousseau on cosmopolitanism, international relations, and republican patriotism
Lucian M. Ashworth, The limits of the Enlightenment: inter-state relations in eighteenth-century political thought
III. Radicalism, republicanism and the exigencies of modernity
Gregory Molyvas, Religious toleration and the question of state neutrality in the politics of the British Enlightenment
Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson, Embracing liberalism: Germaine de Staël’s farewell to republicanism
Martin Thom, The ancient city and the medieval commune: liberty in the light of the French Revolution
Hudson Meadwell, Republicanism and political communities in America and Europe
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