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List of ContributorsIntroduction HANSBLOM, JOHN CHRI STIAN LAURSEN, and LUISA SIMONUTTIPART I: MONARCHISMS AND REPUBLICANISMS IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SPINOZA, BAYLE, FENELON, HUME, AND MONTESQUIEU Spinoza on Res Publica, Republics, and Monarchies HANS BLOM 'Absolute, Not Arbitrary, Power': Monarchism and Politics in the Thought of the Huguenots and Pierre Bayle LUISA S IMONUTTI Bayle and Hume on Monarchy, Scepticism, and Forms of Government SALLY JENKI NSON Fenelon's 'Republican' Monarchism in Telemachus PATRICK R ILEY Free Trade, Free Speech, and Free Love: Monarchy from the Liberal Prospect in Mid-eighteenth Century France MICHAEL MOSHE RPART II. ENLIGHTENED CHRISTIAN AND MILLENARIAN MONARCHISMS Caesar Augustus in Vico's New Science: Monarchy as Remedy for Democracy GEORGE WRIGHT 'Everything Must Be Redone': Condillac as Critic of Despotism and Defender of Toleration GIANNI PAGANINI The Fifth Monarchy Redux RICHARD POPK INPART III: DEFENDING AND RESISTING ABSOLUTE MONARCHY Defending Monarchism in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century HENRIK HORST BOLL Popular Philosophy and Absolute Monarchy JOHAN VAN DERZANDE The Prussian Monarchy and the Practices of Enlightenment MICHAEL SAUTER Theorizing Enlightened Absolutism: The Swiss Republican Origins of Prussian Monarchism SIMON E Z UR BUCHEN Intellectual Resistance to Absolute Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Castillon's Translation of Blount's Philostratus JOHN CHRISTIAN LAURSENPARTIV: REFLECTIONS ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY Monarchy in the Name of Britain: The Case of George III J .G . A . POCOCKIndex

About the Author

Hans Blom is a professor in the Department of Social Science at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
John Christian Laursen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.
Luisa Simonutti is a research associate at the Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno – CNR, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ferrara.