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  • List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: MONARCHISMS AND REPUBLICANISMS IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SPINOZA, BAYLE, FÉNELON, HUME, AND MONTESQUIEU; 1. Spinoza on Res Publica, Republics, and Monarchies; 2. 'Absolute, Not Arbitrary, Power': Monarchism and Politics in the Thought of the Huguenots and Pierre Bayle; 3. Bayle and Hume on Monarchy, Scepticism, and Forms of Government; 4. Fenelon's 'Republican' Monarchism in Telemachus; 5. Free Trade, Free Speech, and Free Love: Monarchy from the Liberal Prospect in Mid-eighteenth Century France
  • PART II. ENLIGHTENED CHRISTIAN AND MILLENARIAN MONARCHISMS; 6. Caesar Augustus in Vico's New Science: Monarchy as Remedy for Democracy; 7. 'Everything Must Be Redone': Condillac as Critic of Despotism and Defender of Toleration; 8. The Fifth Monarchy Redux; PART III: DEFENDING AND RESISTING ABSOLUTE MONARCHY; 9. Defending Monarchism in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century; 10. Popular Philosophy and Absolute Monarchy; 11. The Prussian Monarchy and the Practices of Enlightenment
  • 12. Theorizing Enlightened Absolutism: The Swiss Republican Origins of Prussian Monarchism; 13. Intellectual Resistance to Absolute Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Castillon's Translation of Blount's Philostratus; PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY; 14. Monarchy in the Name of Britain: The Case of George III; Index.