The Individual in Political Theory and Practice
In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European...
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In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European societies evolved into increasingly centralized national states, there emerged a range of religious and secular discourses which expressed the autonomy of individual agents not only as political subjects but also as private selves.
List of Figures and Table1The Individual and the Medieval State12The Individual in Medieval Historiography353The Contribution of Medieval Universities to the Birth of Individualism and Individual Thought594The Secular State of Reformation Period and the Beginnings of the Debate on Religious Toleration795Liberty, Civic Rights, and Duties in Sixteenth-Century Europe and the Rise of the Dutch Republic996Guilt and Individual Consciousness: The Individual, the Church and the State in the Modern Era, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries1237A Case of Modern Individualism: Politics and the Uneasiness of Intellectuals in the Baroque Age1498'Liberty is an Inestimable Thing': Some Unexpected 'Laboratories' of Human Rights in France and Germany1719Rulers and Subjects: The Absolutist Making of the Individual19110What is 'Man' in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy? Subject, Individual, Citizen21511The State and the Individual, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries: Theorizing the Challenge of Subjective Individualism in Britain24312'Les Citoyens envers l'Etat': The Individual as a Citizen from Bodin's Republique to Rousseau's Contrat Social26913The City Community as an Instance in the European Process of Individualization28114The Modern State: Equal Rights. Equalizing the Individual's Status and the Breakthrough of the Modern Liberal State30315Individuals, Groups and States: A Comparative Overview329Bibliography341List of Contributors383Index387
