Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Part I: Monarchisms and Republicanisms in the Political Thought of Spinoza, Bayle, Fénelon, Hume, and Montesquieu
6. 1. Spinoza on Res Publica, Republics, and Monarchies 19
7. 2. ‘Absolute, Not Arbitrary, Power’: Monarchism and Politics in the Thought of the Huguenots and Pierre Bayle 45
8. 3. Bayle and Hume on Monarchy, Scepticism, and Forms of Government 60
9. 4. Fénelon’s ‘Republican’ Monarchism in Telemachus 78
10. 5. Free Trade, Free Speech, and Free Love: Monarchy from the Liberal Prospect in Mid-eighteenth Century France 101
11. Part II: Enlightened Christian and Millenarian Monarchisms
12. 6. Caesar Augustus in Vico’s New Science: Monarchy as Remedy for Democracy 121
13. 7. ‘Everything Must Be Redone’: Condillac as Critic of Despotism and Defender of Toleration 144
14. 8. The Fifth Monarchy Redux 162
15. Part III: Defending and Resisting Absolute Monarchy
16. 9. Defending Monarchism in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century 175
17. 10. Popular Philosophy and Absolute Monarchy 194
18. 11. The Prussian Monarchy and the Practices of Enlightenment 217
19. 12. Theorizing Enlightened Absolutism: The Swiss Republican Origins of Prussian Monarchism 240
20. 13. Intellectual Resistance to Absolute Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Castillon’s Translation of Blount’s Philostratus 267
21. Part IV: Reflections on the British Monarchy
22. 14. Monarchy in the Name of Britain: The Case of George III 285
23. Index 303