Studies on Montesquieu - Mapping Political Diversity

• Main Author: Minuti, Rolando (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 224
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Political science.; History of Philosophy.; History, general.; Political Science.

This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu's argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his De l'Esprit des Lois: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of consistent explanations of political, social and cultural diversity. Following a thorough a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Natural Environment, Society and Government
• 2. Japan and the Tyranny of Legislation
• 3. The Image of Russia
• 4. The most singular People on Earth
• 5. India in the Work of Montesquieu
• 6. Montesquieu's America
• 7. After the Esprit des Lois: Montesquieu and Travel Literature
• 8. Montesquieu and the History of Intolerance
• 9. Montesquieu and Islam: an overview.