Publication Date:
2024-04-02
Description:
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.
Keywords:
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
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thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
Language:
Italian
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image/jpeg
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