LEADER 03457nam 22004933 450 001 996556965003316 005 20231115084558.0 010 $a3-11-078254-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110782547 035 $a(CKB)28742948400041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30882996 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30882996 035 $a(DE-B1597)617201 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110782547 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928742948400041 100 $a20231115d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots $eA Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerlin/Boston :$cWalter de Gruyter GmbH,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (266 pages) 311 08$a9783110777826 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: The Importance of Cloots and Cosmopolitan Republicanism -- $t1 The Life of Cloots -- $t2 Rehabilitating Cloots -- $t3 Reason and Science -- $t4 Natural Law -- $t5 Humanity -- $t6 Republicanism -- $t7 Cosmopolitan Republicanism -- $tBibliography 330 $aHistorians have often either ignored Anacharsis Cloots (1755?1794) or considered him deranged because he claimed to be the ?orator of the human race? and devised a ?universal republic? based on the ?sovereignty of the human race?. This book is the first comprehensive study of the entire body of Cloots?s written works and political actions. By contextualizing them, the book non only rehabilitates Cloots as a political thinker worthy of consideration, but also argues that his political thought constitutes a specific branch of republicanism in the age of Atlantic revolutions: cosmopolitan republicanism. The introduction suggests how 18th-century French cosmopolitanism was a new philosophical tradition, but was composed of several themes, which the book then analyses in Cloots?s writings. The first chapter provides a brief overview of his life. The second chapter explains why he called himself orator and wrote pamphlets, and why contemporary readers should not discard this as non-philosophical. Having established Cloots?s writings as constituting a philosophical system, the following chapters explores it through the themes laid out in the introduction. First, the concept of reason and his understanding of science. Second, the paradigm of natural law and the role of nature in moral and political thought. Third, the conception of humanity and individuals in nature and society. Finally, republicanism and its principles. The last chapter summarizes the elements of Cloots?s cosmopolitan republicanism and opens a research programme to other political thinkers in the age of Atlantic revolutions for historians and political theorists. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General$2bisacsh 610 $aCosmopolitanism. 610 $aEnlightenment. 610 $aFrench revolution. 610 $aRepublicanism. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General. 676 $a944.04092 700 $aPoulsen$b Frank Ejby$01434633 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996556965003316 996 $aThe Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots$93589771 997 $aUNISA