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Edinburgh University Press is
publishing a celebratory collection of essays on philosophy, rights and natural
law, inspired by the work of Knud Haakonssen.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A celebratory collection of essays
on philosophy, rights and natural law, inspired by the work of Knud Haakonssen
Over his long and illustrious
career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating
doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early
modern polities and churches. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how
natural law in early modern Europe was not a unified doctrine, but a field of
crosscutting idioms that prosecuted competing political and juridical
programmes.
The essays collected in this volume
range across this exciting and contested field. These studies acknowledge
Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the
cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical
contexts and circumstances.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor of
History at the University of Queensland. He is author of The
Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian
Thomasius (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is co-editor of Law
and Politics in British Colonial Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Essays
on Church, State and Politics(Liberty Fund, 2007), The Philosopher
in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Heresy
in Transition (Ashgate, 2005) and Natural Law and Civil
Sovereignty(Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Richard Whatmore is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of What is Intellectual History? (Polity, 2015), Against War and Empire (Yale University Press, 2012) and Republicanism and the French Revolution (OUP, 2000). He is the co-editor of Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Companion to Intellectual History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), David Hume (Ashgate, 2013), Advances in Intellectual History (Palgrave, 2006) and Economy, Polity and Society: Essays in British Intellectual History, 2 volumes (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Richard Whatmore is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of What is Intellectual History? (Polity, 2015), Against War and Empire (Yale University Press, 2012) and Republicanism and the French Revolution (OUP, 2000). He is the co-editor of Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Companion to Intellectual History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), David Hume (Ashgate, 2013), Advances in Intellectual History (Palgrave, 2006) and Economy, Polity and Society: Essays in British Intellectual History, 2 volumes (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I: Rights, Religion and
Morality
1. Calvinists, Arminians, Socinians:
Popular Sovereignty and Natural Rights in Early Modern Political Thought
James Moore
2. Truth and Toleration in the Early
Modern Period
Maria Rosa Antognazza
3. The History of the History of
Ethics and Emblematic Passages
Aaron Garrett
4. Natural law and Natural Rights in
Early Enlightenment Copenhagen
Mads Jensen
Part II: Natural Law and the
Philosophers
5. Natural Equality and Natural Law
in Locke's Two Treatises
Kari Saastamoinen
6. Dignity and Equality in
Pufendorf's Natural Law Theory
Simone Zurbuchen
7. Theory and Practice in the
Natural Law of Christian Thomasius
Ian Hunter
8. The iura connata in the Natural
Law of Christian Wolff
Frank Grunert
9. Hume's Peculiar Definition of
Justice
James A. Harris
Part III: Rights and Reform
10. Economising Natural Law:
Pufendorf on Moral Quantities and Sumptuary Legislation
Michael Seidler
11. The Legacy of Smith's
Jurisprudence in Late-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
John W. Cairns
12. Declaring Rights: Bentham and
the Rights of Man
David Lieberman
13. Rights After the Revolutions
Richard Whatmore
Index
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