THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM c.1700 TO c.1890

A2. MONTESQUIEUSet Text:The Spirit of the Laws, eds. A. Cohler, B. Miller and H. Stone (Cambridge, 1989)Suggested secondary reading:R. Shackleton, Montesquieu: A Critical Biography, (London, 1961)M. Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Originsof the French Revolution (Princeton, 2007), chapters 2-3.N.O. Keohane, Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment,(Princeton NJ, 1980), Chapters 10-14Duncan Kelly, The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in ModernPolitical Thought (Princeton, 2010), Ch 2P. A. Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (New Haven CT, 2009)D.W. Carrithers, M.A. Mosher and P.A. Rahe (eds), Montesquieu’s Science of Politics:Essays on the Spirit of the Laws, (Lanham MD, 2001)R. Kingston, Montesquieu and His Legacy (Albany NY, 2008)I. Hont, Jealousy of Trade (Cambridge MA, 2005) ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-156.A. O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before itsTriumph (Princeton NJ, 1977)J.N. Shklar, Montesquieu, (Oxford, 1987)S. Krause, Liberalism with Honor (Cambridge MA, 2002)S. Tomaselli, ‘The Spirit of Nations’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds), The CambridgeHistory of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 9-39P. A. Rahe, ‘The Book That Never Was: Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans inHistorical Context’, History of Political Thought, 26 (2005), 43-89.S. Mason, ‘Montesquieu’s Vision of Europe and its European Context’, Studies on Voltaire andthe Eighteenth Century, 341 (1996), 61-87.R. Shackleton, ‘Montesquieu, Bolingbroke and the separation of powers’, in Shackleton,Essays on Montesquieu and the Enlightenment, D. Gilson and M. Smith (eds), (Oxford, 1988),pp. 3-16.E. Dziembowski, ‘The English Political Model in 18th-Century France’, Historical Research,74 (2001), 151-71.S. Mason, ‘Montesquieu on English Constitutionalism Revisited: A Government ofPotentiality and Paradoxes’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 278 (1990),105-46.D. Desserud, ‘Commerce and Political Participation in Montesquieu’s Letter to Domville’History of European Ideas, 25 (1999), 135-151.S. Krause, ‘The Uncertain Inevitability of Decline in Montesquieu’, Political Theory 30(2002), 702-27.I. Hont, ‘The Luxury Debate in the Early Enlightenment’, in M. Goldie and R. Wokler (eds),The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2006), 379-418.H.E. Ellis, ‘Montesquieu’s Modern Politics: The Spirit of the Laws and the problem ofmodern monarchy in Old Regime France’, History of Political Thought, 10 (1989), 665-700.M. Richter, ‘Despotism’, in P. Wiener (ed), Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies ofSelected Pivotal Ideas, (New York, 1973), Volume II, pp. 1-18.C.P. Courtney, ‘Montesquieu and the Problem of “la diversité”’, in G. Barber and C. P.Courtney (eds), Enlightenment Essays in Memory of Robert Shackleton, (Oxford, 1988), pp.61-81.