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Johnson Kent Wright - A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably - 9780804727891 - V9780804727891
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A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably

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Description for A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably Hardback. This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 575.

This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

This book has two related aims. The first is to fill an important gap in historical scholarship. Although Mably, whose career as a historian and political theorist stretched from 1740 to the eve of the French Revolution, clearly played a major role in the intellectual history of his era, there has been no study of his life and thought in English for nearly seventy years. At the ... Read more

Mably was the author of the most comprehensive and influential body of republican thought produced in eighteenth-century France—a claim with implications that go beyond the merely biographical. These are explored in a final chapter, which draws some conclusions about the character of classical republicanism in France and about the French contribution to the republican tradition in Europe.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804727891
SKU
V9780804727891
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About Johnson Kent Wright
Johnson Kent Wright is a Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at Arizona State University.

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