The Politics of Enlightenment Constitutionalism, Republicanism, and the Rights of Man in Gaetano Filangieri Vincenzo Ferrone, Translated by Sophus A
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ANTHEM PRESS INFORMATION SHEET The Politics of Enlightenment Constitutionalism, Republicanism, and the Rights of Man in Gaetano Filangieri Vincenzo Ferrone, translated by Sophus A. Reinert Pub Date: 01 October 2014 BISAC CATEGORY: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Binding: Paperback Economic History Price: £25.00 / $40.00 BISAC CODE: BUS023000 ISBN: 9781783083121 BIC CODE: KCZ Extent: 310 pages RIGHTS Size: 152 x 229 mm / Exclusive: WORLD 6 x 9 inches Written by one of Italy’s leading historians, this book analyses the Neapolitan nobleman Gaetano Filangieri and his seven-volume ‘Science of Legislation’ in their historical context. ‘Essential reading for anyone interested in the European Enlightenment or the revolutionary movements of the eighteenth century.’ —Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA 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. Contents Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert; Preface: A World to Rediscover: The Enlightenment Origins of Modern Italian Republicanism; Part One: The New Politics ‘Ex Parte Civium’; 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; Part Two: A Difficult Legacy; 8. The Original Character of Enlightenment Constitutionalism: From the ‘Scienza della legislazione’ to the 1799 ‘Progetto di constituzione napoletana’; 9. 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 Rights of Happiness; Notes; Index About the Author(s) / Editor(s) Vincenzo Ferrone is Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin, Italy. Sophus A. Reinert is Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Ordering in the UK/Rest of the World Ordering in North America Marston Book Services Books International P.O. Box 269, Abingdon, Oxfordshire P.O. Box 605, Herndon, VA OX14 4YN, United Kingdom 20172-0605 United States Tel: +44 (0)1235 465577 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 465556 Tel: +1 703 661 1570 | Fax: +1 703 661 1501 [email protected] | [email protected] [email protected] 75-76 Blackfriars Road | London SE1 8HA | United Kingdom | Tel: +44 (0)20 7401 4200 | Fax: +44 (0)20 7401 4225 244 Madison Ave. #116 | New York | NY 10016 | United States | Tel: +1 646 736 7908 | Fax: +1 646 839 2934 [email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected] | www.anthempress.com.