The Politics of Enlightenment : Constitutionalism, Republicanism, and the Rights of Man in Gaetano Filangieri /: Constitutionalism, Republicanism, and the Rights of Man in Gaetano Filangieri. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vincenzo Ferrone, Translated by Sophus Reinert.
• Other Names: Ferrone, Vincenzo; Reinert, Sophus
• Contents: Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert; Preface: A World to Rediscover: The Enlightenment Origins of Modern Italian Republicanism; Part One: The New Politics ‘Ex Parte Civium’; 1. The Enlightenment and the Political Critique of the ‘Scientia Juris’; 2. The Critique of the British Constitutional Model and the Political Laboratory of the American Revolution; 3. Against Montesquieu and Class Constitutionalism: The Denunciations of the ‘Feudal Monster’ and the ‘Tempered Monarchy’; 4. Constructing a New Constitutionalism: Masonic Sociability and Equality; 5. The Neapolitan School of Natural Law and the Historical Origins of the Rights of Man; 6. Beyond ‘Reason of State’: The Moral and Religious Foundations of the New Politics ‘Ex Parte Civium’; 7. Nation or Fatherland? The Republican and Constitutional Patriotism of Italian Enlightenment Thinkers; Part Two: A Difficult Legacy; 8. The Original Character of Enlightenment Constitutionalism: From the ‘Scienza della legislazione’ to the 1799 ‘Progetto di constituzione napoletana’; 9. Vincenzo Cuoco: The National Critique of Cosmopolitan Enlightenment Constitutionalism; 10. The Liberal Constant against the Enlightened Filangieri: Two Interpretations of Modernity; 11. Filangierian Heresies in the European Democratic Tradition: The Principle of Justice and the Rights of Happiness; Notes; Index
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 321.8/6; Republicanism -- Italy -- History; Civil rights -- Italy -- History; Constitutional history -- Italy; State, The; Political science -- Italy -- History -- 18th century; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy; Civil rights; Constitutional history; Political science; Republicanism; State, The; Italy; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857289247; 0857289241
• Related ISBNs: 9780857289704; 0857289705
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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