This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created
multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an
age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to
liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for
generations of readers. Yet democracy did not elicit much
enthusiasm among contemporaries, while democracy as a political
system remained virtually nonexistent through much of the period.
If seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ideas did underwrite the
democracies of succeeding centuries, they were often inheritances
from monarchical governments that had encouraged plural structures
of power competition. But in revolutions across France, Britain,
and North America, the republican integration of constitutional
principle and popular will established rational hope for public
happiness. Nevertheless, the tragic clashes of principle and will
in fraught revolutionary projects were also democratic legacies.
Each chapter focuses on a distinct theme: sovereignty; liberty and
the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social
democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation;
citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism;
democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international
relations; and the transformations of sovereignty—a synoptic
survey of the cultural entanglements of “enlightenment” and
“democracy.”
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
The Cultural Histories Series |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Editors: |
Michael Mosher
• Anna Plassart
|
| Series editors: |
Eugenio Biagini
|
| Dimensions: |
244 x 169mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-44005-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-350-44005-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781350440050 |
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