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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462302003321

Autore

Ferrone Vincenzo

Titolo

The politics of enlightenment : Republicanism, constitutionalism, and the rights of man in Gaetano Filangieri / / Vincenzo Ferrone ; translated by Sophus A. Reinert [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-70502-8

0-85728-924-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The Anthem Other Canon Series The politics of enlightenment

Disciplina

321.8/6

Soggetti

Republicanism - Italy - History

Civil rights - Italy - History

Constitutional history - Italy

State, The

Political science - Italy - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN; Preface A WORLD TO REDISCOVER: THE ENLIGHTENMENT ORIGINS OF MODERN ITALIAN REPUBLICANISM; Part One THE NEW POLITICS 'EX PARTE CIVIUM'; Chapter One THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE POLITICAL CRITIQUE OF THE SCIENTIA JURIS; Chapter Two THE CRITIQUE OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL MODEL AND THE POLITICAL LABORATORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Chapter Three AGAINST MONTESQUIEU AND CLASS CONSTITUTIONALISM: THE DENUNCIATIONS OF THE 'FEUDAL MONSTER' AND THE 'TEMPERED MONARCHY'

Chapter Four CONSTRUCTING A NEW CONSTITUTIONALISM: MASONIC SOCIABILITY AND EQUALITY Chapter Five THE NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL OF NATURAL LAW AND THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN; Chapter Six BEYOND 'REASON OF STATE': THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEW POLITICS EX PARTE CIVIUM; Chapter Seven NATION OR FATHERLAND? THE REPUBLICAN AND CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOTISM OF ITALIAN ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS; Part Two A



DIFFICULT LEGACY; Chapter Eight THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER OF ENLIGHTENMENT CONSTITUTIONALISM: FROM THE SCIENZA DELLA LEGISLAZIONE TO THE 1799 PROGETTO DI COSTITUZIONE NAPOLETANA

Chapter Nine VINCENZO CUOCO: THE NATIONAL CRITIQUE OF COSMOPOLITAN ENLIGHTENMENT CONSTITUTIONALISM Chapter Ten THE LIBERAL CONSTANT AGAINST THE ENLIGHTENED FILANGIERI: TWO INTERPRETATIONS OF MODERNITY; Chapter Eleven FILANGIERIAN HERESIES IN THE EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC TRADITION: THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE AND THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS; NOTES; Foreword; Preface; 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

8. The Original Character of Enlightenment Constitutionalism: From the Scienza della legislazione to the 1799 Progetto di costituzione napoletana9. 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 Right to Happiness; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Written by one of Italy’s leading historians, this book analyses the context and legacy of Gaetano Filangieri’s seven-volume ‘Science of Legislation’. This study engages with the unique history of Enlightenment Naples, the intellectual traditions upon which Filangieri drew, and the powerful repercussions of the American Revolution in eighteenth-century Italy to re-draw the map of Enlightenment republicanism and the early history of human rights and their political economy.