New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09986-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 60, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to a large diaspora of French Huguenots, known as the Refuge. Spreading throughout Europe, many of these Huguenots used their literary and polemical talents in the development of political ideas that would help them in their efforts to return to France, or in their adjustment to living outside of France. Arguably, their predicament turned some of them into cosmopolitans and instigated their contributions to the theory and practice of freedom of the press and economic freedom.
As in the case of other diaspora cultures, expulsion from France evidently drove the refugees to new levels of political awareness and new heights of argumentative creativity. The work of the famous and industrious refugee Pierre Bayle has been credited with inspiring the great figures of Enlightenment and modernity. Too often, however, the work of less famous figures who contributed to the ethos of this period has been neglected. This volume contains explorations in the originality and influence of many of those figures, while pointing to the need for more work in the area.

Contributors include: Daniel Brühlmeier, Pauline Haour, T.J. Hochstrasser, John Christian Laursen, Fabrizio Lomonaco, Bertram E. Schwarzbach, and Simone Zurbuchen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laursen, John Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Claims of Conscince: Natural Law Theory, Obligation, and Resistance in the Huguenot Diaspora, T.J.
Hochstrasser
2. Natural Law and Early Economic Thought im Barbeyrac, Burlamaqui, and Vattel, Daniel Brühlmeier
3. Impostors and Liars: Clandestine Manuscripts and the Limits of Freedom of the Press in the huhuenot
Netherlands, John Christain Laursen
Appendix: English translation of Pierre Ricotier, “Dissertation sur le mensonge officieux/ Dissertation on
Beneficial Lying '
4. Politics and Ethics in the Huguenot Diaspora: Isaace de Beusobre in Berlin, Bertram E. Schwarzbach
5.Antoine Court and Refugee Political Thought (1719-1752), Pauline Haour
6. Jaucourt, Republican, and Toleration, Simone Zurbuchen
7. Huguenot Critical Theory and ”lus Maiestatis” in Huber and Althusius, Fabrizio Lomonaco

Appendices: Latin and English versions of Johannes Althusius, 1610 Preface to Politica Methodice
Digesta

Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Christian Laursen, Ph.D. (1985) in Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University, teaches political theory at the University of California, Riverside. He has published many articles on the history of political thought and is the author of The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant (Brill, 1992).