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.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0322-6879
Book Title
La teocrazia
Book Subtitle
Crisi e trasformazione di un modello politico nell’Europa del XVIII secolo
Authors
Iolanda Anna Richichi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
270
Publication Year
2016
Copyright Information
© 2016 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-347-6
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-346-9
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-347-6
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-253-7
Series Title
Premio Tesi di Dottorato
Series ISSN
2612-8039
Series E-ISSN
2612-8020