Despotism to Law, Common
Title | Despotism to Law, Common PDF eBook |
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Pages | 696 |
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Despotism - Law, Common
Title | Despotism - Law, Common PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Paul Wiener |
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Pages | 696 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | History of ideas |
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Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe
Title | Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Vickie B. Sullivan |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022648291X |
Montesquieu is famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, Vickie B. Sullivan argues that a creaful reading of Montesquieu's enormously influential The Spirit of the Law reveals the surprising result that he recognizes that Europe itself is susceptible to despotic practices - and that the threat emanates not from the East but rather from certain despotic ideas that inform Western institutions and practices. Sullivan guides readers through Montesquieu's sometimes veiled yet sharply critical accounts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as various Christian thinkers have brough forth despotic ideas in the form, for example, of brutal Machiavellianism, of Hobbes's justifications for the rule of one, of Plato's reasoning that denied slaves the right of natural defense, and of the Christian teachings that equated heresy with treason. Such ideas, Montesquieu shows, inform such revered European institutions as the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. In this new reading of Montesquieu's masterwork, Sullivan corrects the misconception that it offers simple, objective observations, showing it to be instead a powerful critique of European politics that would become remarkably and regrettably prescient after Montesquieu's death, when despotism repeatedly emerged in Europe with virulent intensity. -- from dust jacket.
Despotism in America
Title | Despotism in America PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hildreth |
Publisher | Boston : J.P. Jewett and Company |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | History |
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Title | Dictionary of the History of Ideas PDF eBook |
Author | P.P. Wiener |
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Release | 1973 |
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Oriental Despotism
Title | Oriental Despotism PDF eBook |
Author | Karl August Wittfogel |
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Release | 1963 |
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Abstraction in the formulation of concepts, to Design argument
Title | Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Abstraction in the formulation of concepts, to Design argument PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Paul Wiener |
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Release | 1973 |
Genre | Civilization |
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