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1 online resource (317 pages) |
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: MONARCHISMS AND REPUBLICANISMS IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SPINOZA, BAYLE, FÉNELON, HUME, AND MONTESQUIEU -- 1 Spinoza on Res Publica, Republics, and Monarchies -- 2 'Absolute, Not Arbitrary, Power': Monarchism and Politics in the Thought of the Huguenots and Pierre Bayle -- 3 Bayle and Hume on Monarchy, Scepticism, and Forms of Government -- 4 Fénelon's 'Republican' Monarchism in Telemachus -- 5 Free Trade, Free Speech, and Free Love: Monarchy from the Liberal Prospect in Mid-eighteenth Century France -- PART II. ENLIGHTENED CHRISTIAN AND MILLENARIAN MONARCHISMS -- 6 Caesar Augustus in Vico's New Science: Monarchy as Remedy for Democracy -- 7 'Everything Must Be Redone': Condillac as Critic of Despotism and Defender of Toleration -- 8 The Fifth Monarchy Redux -- PART III: DEFENDING AND RESISTING ABSOLUTE MONARCHY -- 9 Defending Monarchism in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century -- 10 Popular Philosophy and Absolute Monarchy -- 11 The Prussian Monarchy and the Practices of Enlightenment -- 12 Theorizing Enlightened Absolutism: The Swiss Republican Origins of Prussian Monarchism -- 13 Intellectual Resistance to Absolute Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Castillon's Translation of Blount's Philostratus -- PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY -- 14 Monarchy in the Name of Britain: The Case of George III -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z |
| Summary |
Fascinating and timely, Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment will be of interest to historians, political theorists, political philosophers, and political scientists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Monarchy -- History -- 18th century
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Monarchy -- History -- 17th century
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Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
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Enlightenment
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Monarchy
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Europa (geografie)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Laursen, John Christian
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Simonutti, Luisa
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| LC no. |
2007276905 |
| ISBN |
9781442684607 |
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1442684607 |
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