Bodin: On Sovereignty
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Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Real Author: Jean Bodin
- Editor: Julian H. Franklin
- Date Published: May 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521349925
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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.
Read more- Bodin is an important figure in early modern political thought, propounding an influential theory justifying absolute monarchy. The four chapters here contain the essence of Bodin's theory
- This is the first full translation of these works into English since 1606
- Julian Franklin is a noted authority on the political thought of the time, and especially on Bodin
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'Professor Julian Franklin's edition of 'Bodin: On Sovereignty' consists of four chapters from Les Six Livres de la République, incontestably one of the seminal texts in modern political thought.' French History
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- Date Published: May 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521349925
- length: 194 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.23kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Principal events in Bodin's life
Bibliography
Note on the text
Notes on format
Notes on translation
1. République
2. Book 1, chapter 8 on sovereignty
3. Book 1, chapter 10 on the true marks of sovereignty
4. Book 2, chapter 1 on the kinds of state in general
5. Book 2, chapter 5 whether it is lawful to make an attempt upon the tyrant's life and to nullify and repeal his ordinances after he is dead
Textual notes
Index.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Christianity & Modern State
- The State: A Conceptual and Historical Inquiry
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