Montesquieu and the spirit of modernity
Ceux d’aujourd’hui ne nous parlent que de manufactures, de commerce, de finances, de richesses et de luxe meme.’Ancient philosophers had conceptualised model regimes where human beings would flourish in accordance with their natural purposes and potentialities shaped by good laws well obeyed.
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AcknowledgementsDavid W. Carrithers, Introduction: Montesquieu and the spirit of modernityI. OvertureStephen Werner, Comedy and modernity: the Lettres persanesII. Ancients and modernsCatherine Volpilhac-Auger, Montesquieu et l’impérialisme grec: Alexandre ou l’art de la conquêteJames W. Muller, The political economy of republicanismDiana J. Schaub, The regime and Montesquieu’s principles of educationElena Russo, The youth of moral life: the virtue of the ancients from Montesquieu to NietzscheIII. Monarchy, population, taxation and justiceCéline Spector, Vices privés, vertus publiques: de la Fable des abeilles à De l’esprit des loisDavid W. Carrithers, Montesquieu and the spirit of French finance: an analysis of his Mémoire sur les dettes de l’état(1715) Carol Blum, Montesquieu, the sex ratio and ‘natural polygamy’Louis Desgraves, Montesquieu et la justice de son tempsIV. Horizons of interpretationDaniel Brewer, Thinking history through MontesquieuCatherine Larrère, Montesquieu and the modern republic: the republican heritage in nineteenth-century FranceIndex