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Book SynopsisCeux d’aujourd’hui ne nous parlent que de manufactures, de commerce, de finances, de richesses et de luxe meme.’
Ancient philosophers had conceptualised model regimes where human beings would flourish in accordance with their natural purposes and potentialities shaped by good laws well obeyed.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
David W. Carrithers, Introduction: Montesquieu and the spirit of modernity
I. Overture
Stephen Werner, Comedy and modernity: the
Lettres persanesII. Ancients and moderns
Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Montesquieu et l’impérialisme grec: Alexandre ou l’art de la conquête
James W. Muller, The political economy of republicanism
Diana J. Schaub, The regime and Montesquieu’s principles of education
Elena Russo, The youth of moral life: the virtue of the ancients from Montesquieu to Nietzsche
III. Monarchy, population, taxation and justice
Céline Spector, Vices privés, vertus publiques: de la
Fable des abeilles à
De l’esprit des loisDavid W. Carrithers, Montesquieu and the spirit of French finance: an analysis of his
Mémoire sur les dettes de l’état(1715)
Carol Blum, Montesquieu, the sex ratio and ‘natural polygamy’
Louis Desgraves, Montesquieu et la justice de son temps
IV. Horizons of interpretation
Daniel Brewer, Thinking history through Montesquieu
Catherine Larrère, Montesquieu and the modern republic: the republican heritage in nineteenth-century France
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