(Source: OUP)
Oxford
University Press is publishing a new book on the enlightenment and the rights
of man.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The
Enlightenment redefined the ethics of the rights of man as part of an outlook
that was based on reason, the equality of all nations and races, and man's
self-determination. This led to the rise of a new language: the political
language of the moderns, which spread throughout the world its message of the
universality and inalienability of the rights of man, transforming previous
references to subjective rights in the state of nature into an actual programme
for the emancipation of man.
Ranging from the
Italy of Filangieri and Beccaria to the France of Voltaire, Rousseau and
Diderot, from the Scotland of Hume, Ferguson and Smith to the Germany of
Lessing, Goethe and Schiller, and as far as the America of Franklin and
Jefferson, Vincenzo Ferrone deals with a crucial theme of modern
historiography: one that addresses the great contemporary debate on the
problematic relationship between human rights and the economy, politics and
justice, the rights of the individual and the rights of the community, state
and religious despotism and freedom of conscience.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vincenzo Ferrone
has written extensively on the Enlightenment and Ancien régime Europe. He has
taught and held fellowships at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Ca'
Foscari University in Venice, and the Collège de France in Paris. He is
currently Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin.
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