The Politics of Enlightenment: Republicanism, Constitutionalism, and the Rights of Man in Gaetano FilangieriFerrone (modern history, U. of Turin, Italy) explores the notions of republic and constitution between the American and French revolutions. Taking Filangieri's (1752-88) The Science of Legislation (1780) as a starting point, he formulates some working hypotheses based on the achievements of the new cultural history of the Enlightenment, some themes and issues he has addressed previously. His topics include the critique of the British constitutional model and the political laboratory of the American revolution, the denunciations of the feudal monster and the tempered monarchy, the Neapolitan school of natural law and the historical origin of the rights of man, the republican and constitutional patriotism of Italian Enlightenment thinkers, and the liberal constant against the Enlightened Filangieri as two interpretations of modernity. Reinert is at the Harvard Business School. Distributed in the US by Books International, Inc. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
Contents
Politics of Enlightenment_02_Chap 02_p013027 | 13 |
Politics of Enlightenment_03_Chap 03_p028045 | 28 |
Politics of Enlightenment_04_Chap 04_p046062 | 46 |
Politics of Enlightenment_05_Chap 05_p063076 | 63 |
Politics of Enlightenment_06_Chap 06_p077099 | 77 |
Politics of Enlightenment_07_Chap 07_p100138 | 100 |
Politics of Enlightenment_08_Chap 08_p139152 | 139 |
Politics of Enlightenment_09_Chap 09_p153175 | 153 |
Politics of Enlightenment_10_Chap 10_p176195 | 176 |
Politics of Enlightenment_11_Chap 11_p196219 | 196 |
Politics of Enlightenment_12_Notes_p220272 | 220 |
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