8. Identification and the Politics of Envy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Marx and Material Culture: Istvan Hont and the History of Scholarship 23
5. 2. Sociability in Sacred Historical Perspective, 1650–1800 53
6. 3. From Rousseau to Kant 82
7. 4. Modern Representative Democracy: Intellectual Genealogy and Drawbacks 111
8. 5. Revision, Reorganization, and Reform: Prussia, 1790–1820 136
9. 6. Liberty, Autonomy, and Republican Historiography: Civic Humanism in Context 161
10. 7. Millennium and Enlightenment: Robert Owen and the Second Coming of the Truth 211
11. 8. Identification and the Politics of Envy 244
12. 9. Commerce, Credit, and Sovereignty: The Nation-State as Historical Critique 265
13. 10. Why We Need a Global History of Political Thought 285
14. Acknowledgments 311
15. Index 313