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Titel:Ideas of poverty in the age of Enlightenment
Mitwirkende:O'Flaherty, Niall [HerausgeberIn]   i
 Mills, R. J. W. [HerausgeberIn]   i
Verf.angabe:edited by Niall O'Flaherty and R.J.W. Mills
Verlagsort:Manchester
Verlag:Manchester University Press
Jahr:2024
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 260 Seiten)
Gesamttitel/Reihe:Studies in early modern European history
Fussnoten:Includes bibliographical references and index
Schrift/Sprache:English
ISBN:978-1-5261-6678-4
 1-5261-6678-X
Abstract:Although poverty in the eighteenth century has long been an object of focus for social historians, it has figured only marginally in the intellectual history of the period. This is because it has been assumed that the existence of poverty was rarely problematised before the transformative decade of the 1790s. Yet because the theme of poverty played important roles in many critical issues in European history, it was central to some of the key debates in Enlightenment political thought throughout the period, including the controversies about sovereignty and representation, public and private charity, as well as questions relating to crime and punishment. Indeed, leading thinkers like the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, the French Physiocrats and the Milanese jurist Cesare Beccaria had come to see the fate of the poor as an urgent political question in the middle decades of the century. This book examines some of the most important contributions to these debates, while also ranging beyond the canonical Enlightenment thinkers, to investigate how poverty was conceptualised in the wider intellectual culture, as politicians, administrators and pamphlet writers grappled with the issue. The volume also revisits the question of why and how many governments and men of letters began to address poverty as a social problem in the 1790s. It asks how far the drive to reduce or eliminate want was already underway before the French Revolution, as well as challenging the binary characterisation of debates in the period as a struggle between humanitarian radicals and cold-hearted reactionaries
URL:kostenfrei: Verlag: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89996
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Datenträger:Online-Ressource
Sprache:eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Ideas of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024. - viii, 260 Seiten
Sach-SW:Siècle des Lumières
 Dix-huitième siècle
 Pauvreté
 Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
 poverty
 Poverty and precarity
 History of ideas
 Legal history
 Social and cultural history
 Western Europe
 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799
 Social security and welfare law
 Social and political philosophy
K10plus-PPN:1889773204
 
 
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