ISBN:
9788864533476
,
9788864533469
,
9788892732537
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (270 p.)
Series Statement:
Premio Tesi di Dottorato
Keywords:
History: specific events & topics
;
Social & political philosophy
;
Cultural studies
;
Political science & theory
;
Political economy
Abstract:
This study analyses the crisis and transformations of theocracy as a political model in Europe in the first half of the 18th century. The work focuses on the transition from a positive and normative seventeenth-century consideration of theocracy, associated with the Jewish people, to its description in the 18th century as a universal, negative and primitive model. To this end, three authors are examined in their role of emblematic figures of this change, namely: Jacques Basnage, John Toland and Giambattista Vico. The study then highlights a radicalisation phase in mid-eighteenth-century France in the works by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, and ends with the description of Boulanger's theocracy in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie
Note:
Italian
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