Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State

Volume Five, Modern Origins, Developments, and Perspectives against the Background of Machiavellism^LBook II: Modern Major Isms (17th-18th Centuries)

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Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State

Volume Five, Modern Origins, Developments, and Perspectives against the Background of Machiavellism^LBook II: Modern Major Isms (17th-18th Centuries)

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Focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries, this volume centers around six ideological isms that the author seeks to exploit as well as deconstruct. The six isms are absolutism, constitutionalism, rationalism, empiricism, liberalism, and conservatism—all of which have long presented problematical constructs that the author seeks to de-construct. The unusually broad range of famous thinkers studied here includes Hobbes, Locke, Richelieu, Bossuet, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Smith, Burke, and various French revolutionaries. Although the focus here is historical, the contemporary import of the subject is often brought out.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Modern "Absolutism" and "Constitutionalism": in Legislative and Other Contexts of Sovereignty and State: 17th Century Middle Ground
"Absolutism" and Its Varieties in Select English, French, and German Writings
"Constitutionalism" and Its Varieties in Select English Writings
Modern "Rationalism," "Empiricism," "Liberalism," and "Conservatism" in Legislative and Other Contexts of Sovereignty and State: 18th-Century Middle Ground
"Rationalism" in the French and Italian Enlightenments
"Empiricism" in Relation to Hume and Smith
"Liberalism" and the French Revolution
"Conservatism" in Relation to Burke
Notes

Product details

Published May 23 1996
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 488
ISBN 9780275956899
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 235 x 156 mm
Series Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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A. London Fell

A. LONDON FELL has a B.A. from Princeton Universit…

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