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ISBN:
9780511802812
Series Statement:
Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
Uniform Title:
Six livres de la République Selections
Content:
Bodin's Six livres de la république is a vast synthesis of comparative public law and politics, the theoretical core of which is formed by the four chapters translated in this volume. These contain his celebrated theory of sovereignty, which informed his thinking on the state and made his République a landmark in the development of European political thought. This theory, however, also included a seductive but erroneous thesis that was of great importance for the development of royalist ideology: the idea that sovereignty is indivisible, that the entire power of the state has to be vested in a single individual or group. This thesis, together with the crisis of authority in the French religious wars, led Bodin to a systematically absolutist interpretation of the French and other contemporary monarchies. His primary aim was to exclude any legal ground of forcible resistance. A king of France, he hoped, would continue to adhere to moral and prudential limitations, but a proper king, he insisted, could not be lawfully constrained. This is the first complete translation of these chapters into English since 1606. It is accompanied by a lucid introduction, a chronology, and a bibliography
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ISBN 9780521342063
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521349925
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bodin, Jean, 1529 - 1596 On sovereignty Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992 ISBN 9780521342063
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521349925
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521342066
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ISBN 0521349923
Language:
English
Keywords:
Souveränität
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Absolutismus
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511802812
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