Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franco Venturi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511896439 |
| OpenAlex | W4231034289 |
| Open Library | OL34464792M |
| ISBN | 9780511896439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
In this detailed study of the republican tradition in the development of the Enlightenment, the central problem of utopia and reform is crystallized in a discussion of the right to punish. Describing the political situation in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author shows how the old republics in Italy, Poland and Holland stagnated and were unable to survive in the age of absolutism. The Philosophes discussed the ideal of republicanism against this background. They were particularly influenced by the political and religious radicalism of John Toland, which had survived the English Restoration and was then reaching Europe. Professor Venturi traces the debate on the penal laws and the attempt to relate utopian ideas of society to the practical problem of dealing with man in society, which culminated in the assertion by many Philosophes that an unjust social system necessitated harsh penal laws, thereby rejecting the possibility of reform.
Absolute monarchy · Assertion · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics) · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Utopia · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
A Republic of Cuckoo Clocks
Republicanism
The French Revolution in Global Context
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
The Institutionalisation of Philosophy in Continental Europe
Artifice and the Natural World
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
The Case for The Enlightenment
The Active Powers
From the Crisis of Civil Culture to the Neapolitan Republic of 1647
Civic Humanism and Republican Citizenship in the Polish Renaissance
Education
Rights or Virtues
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Political languages of the French Revolution
Natural History
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
Citizenship and Republicanism in Elizabethan England
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Social contract theory and its critics
Philosophy of Language
The Idea of a Republican Constitution in Old Régime France
Aristotelians, Monarchomachs and Republicans
Republicanism
The comparative study of regimes and societies
Freemasonry as a factor of formation of civil society
A rival Enlightenment? Critical international theory in historical mode
From the “Renaissance” to the “Enlightenment”
Religion and Politics
Sympathy and Separation
Trotsky’s error
Introduction - From philosophes to pundits
Republicanism in Italy from the eighteenth century to the early Risorgimento
From Paratexts to Print Machinery
A Contested Inheritance
Cultural entrepreneurs and the origins of modern economic growth
Modernity and Nation-Making in India, Turkey and Iran
John Pocock and the Jealousy of Trade
John Pocock’s Histories of Historiography
History and Sovereignty
John Toland, the druids, and the politics of Celtic scholarship
The notorious Dr. Middleton
Pan-Europeanism as an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Form of Cosmopolitanism
Monarchy with ‘ An air of republicanism spread throughout’
Inventing Criminology
Recasting Utopia
The Republic of the Moderns
Neo-republicanism
Liberalism and enlightenment in eighteenth‐century Germany
Comment écrit-on l'histoire intellectuelle des Lumières? Spinozisme, radicalisme et philosophie
L'énigme des Lumières
What Enlightenment Was, What It Still Might Be, and Why Kant May Have Been Right After All
The Jury as a Translation of Democratic Participation and Political Conflict
Urban Violence, Citizenship and Public Policies
Religion and the Age of "Patriot" Reform
John Toland
The Italian Enlightenment and the Rehabilitation of Moral and Political Philosophy
Competing for Liberty
The Crystallization of Counter-Enlightenment and Philosophe Identities
Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France
Christianity and Republicanism
| Unique citing works | 62 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2026 (54) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |