Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Hardcover

Bodin, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521342066 ISBN 13: 9780521342063

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology. The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique. Bodin was primarily responsible for introducing the seductive but erroneous notion that sovereignty is indivisible, that the entire power of the state had to be vested in a single individual or group. This thesis, combined with the prevailing crisis of authority during the French religious wars, led Bodin to a systematically absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. This is the first complete translation of this material into English since 1606, and is accompanied by a lucid introduction, chronology, and bibliography.

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Book Description:

Bodin introduced the erroneous notion of indivisible sovereignty which led to an absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. The first complete translation of his work since 1606 includes a chronology and bibliography.

About the Author:

Marion Leathers Kuntz is the Regents Professor of Classics Emerita at Georgia State University. She is the author of Guillaume Postel: Prophet of the Restitution of All Things; His Life and Thought (1981) as well as The Anointment of Dionisio (Penn State, 2001)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521342066
• ISBN 13: 9780521342063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Franklin Julian H.