Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781032239330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Ere Nokkala; Nicholas B. Miller

Opis

This book reveals the linked history between cameralism and Enlightenment across 18th-century Europe, yielding a transnational, cultural and intellectual history of political economy beyond Britain and France, focusing on the mediation of ideas about commerce, colonialism and natural law.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: Interactions  2. On Happiness: Welfare in Cameralist Discourse in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries  3. Reconciling Private Interests and the Common Good: An Essay on Cameralist Discourse  4. A Transnational German: JHG von Justi on International Trade  5. The International Politics of Cameralism: The Balance of Power and Dutch Translations of Justi  Part II: Widening Perspectives  6. Cameralism and the Politics of Populationism: Comparative Perspectives  7. Towards Ecological Statehood?: Cameralism and the Human-Nature Interface in the Eighteenth Century  Part III: Dissemination and Local Mediation  8. Cesare Beccaria as Functionary, Lecturer, Cameralist?: Interpreting Cameralism in Habsburg Lombardy  9. Cameralist Ideas in Portuguese Enlightened Reformism: The Diplomat Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho and His Circuits of Intellectual Exchange  10. Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment of the Cameral Sciences   11. Cameralism in Spain: Polizeywissenschaft and the Bourbon Reforms  12. What is Cameralism?  13. Cameralism in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Reform, Translations and Academic Mobility  14. Epilogue

O autorze

Ere Nokkala is University Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies.

Nicholas B. Miller is Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences.