Montesquieu And The Despotic Ideas Of Europe
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Montesquieu The Despotic Ideas Of Europe
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Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Montesquieu The Despotic Ideas Of Europe written by Vickie B. Sullivan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Religion categories.
Montesquieu is rightly famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates in his writings overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, a careful reading of Montesquieu reveals that he recognizes a susceptibility to despotic practices in the West—and that the threat emanates not from the East, but from certain despotic ideas that inform such Western institutions as the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. Nowhere is Montesquieu’s critique of the despotic ideas of Europe more powerful than in his enormously influential The Spirit of the Laws, and Vickie B. Sullivan guides readers through Montesquieu’s sometimes veiled, yet sharply critical accounts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as various Christian thinkers. He finds deleterious consequences, for example, in brutal Machiavellianism, in Hobbes’s justifications for the rule of one, in Plato’s reasoning that denied slaves the right of natural defense, and in the Christian teachings that equated heresy with treason and informed the Inquisition. In this new reading of Montesquieu’s masterwork, Sullivan corrects the misconception that it offers simple, objective observations, showing it instead to be a powerful critique of European politics that would become remarkably and regrettably prescient after Montesquieu’s death when despotism wound its way through Europe.
Montesquieu S Science Of Politics
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Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2001
Montesquieu S Science Of Politics written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Law categories.
In what constitutes the only English-language collection of essays ever dedicated to the analysis of Montesquieu's contributions to political science, the contributors review some of the most vexing controversies that have arisen in the interpretation of Montesquieu's thought. By paying careful attention to the historical, political, and philosophical contexts of Montesquieu's ideas, the contributors provide fresh readings of The Spirit of Laws, clarify the goals and ambitions of its author, and point out the pertinence of his thinking to the problems of our world today.
Studies On Montesquieu Mapping Political Diversity
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Author : Rolando Minuti
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Studies On Montesquieu Mapping Political Diversity written by Rolando Minuti and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Philosophy categories.
This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu’s argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his De l’Esprit des Lois: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of consistent explanations of political, social and cultural diversity. Following a thorough and careful analysis of his writings, the volume approaches this subject by observing the use of the information sources available to Montesquieu, the relationships between them, and the judgments he expresses. The book examines some of Montesquieu’s essential theoretical contributions, such as the idea of despotism, and the connection between politics, society and religion, on the basis of his reflections on the variety of mainly non-European societies and cultures. It demonstrates a number of possible inconsistencies and unresolved questions in Montesquieu’s argumentation. One of the main subjects of the book is the consideration of geographical context as an essential element for elaborating uniform criteria of political analysis. The book collects contributions concerning Montesquieu’s reflections on China, Tartary, Japan, India, America, Russia, and the Islamic world, and, building on this earlier research, it shows the importance of Montesquieu’s thought and explains the reason for his longstanding influence.
Empire And Modern Political Thought
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Author : Sankar Muthu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-17
Empire And Modern Political Thought written by Sankar Muthu and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with History categories.
This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire. The creation of vast transcontinental empires and imperial trading networks played a key role in the development of modern European political thought. The rise of modern empires raised fundamental questions about virtually the entire contested set of concepts that lay at the heart of modern political philosophy, such as property, sovereignty, international justice, war, trade, rights, transnational duties, civilization, and progress. From Renaissance republican writings about conquest and liberty to sixteenth-century writings about the Spanish conquest of the Americas through Enlightenment perspectives about conquest and global commerce and nineteenth-century writings about imperial activities both within and outside of Europe, these essays survey the central moral and political questions occasioned by the development of overseas empires and European encounters with the non-European world among theologians, historians, philosophers, diplomats, and merchants.
The Spirit Of Laws
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Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
The Spirit Of Laws written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Jurisprudence categories.
The Spirit Of Montesquieu S Persian Letters
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Author : Constantine Christos Vassiliou
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-05-08
The Spirit Of Montesquieu S Persian Letters written by Constantine Christos Vassiliou and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-08 with Philosophy categories.
The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters explores Montesquieu’s careful treatment of the spiritual, ethical, and civic dilemmas France encountered in the early 18th Century. In examining Montesquieu’s response to Bourbon France’s commercial and political culture of this time, it will help deepen our understanding of his political philosophy.
Complete Works
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Author : Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1777
Complete Works written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1777 with French literature categories.
Montesquieu
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Author : David W. Carrithers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-19
Montesquieu written by David W. Carrithers and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-19 with History categories.
The first complete translation of twenty-one texts by Montesquieu , presenting his views on politics, science, economics, and religion.
Contesting Europe
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-12-09
Contesting Europe written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-09 with History categories.
This collective volume examines the prevalence and variability of early modern discourses on Europe; it considers both Latin and vernacular texts from various fields of study in order to shed new light on how the concept of Europe evolved in its early days.
Europe And The British Geographical Imagination 1760 1830
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Author : Paul Stock
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-03
Europe And The British Geographical Imagination 1760 1830 written by Paul Stock and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with History categories.
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.