La Teocrazia : : Crisi e trasformazione di un modello politico nell'Europa del XVIII secolo / / Iolanda Anna Richichi.

• VerfasserIn: Richichi, Iolanda Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Florence, Italy : : Firenze University Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: Italian
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 pages)

This study analyses the crisis and transformations of theocracy as a political model in Europe in the first half of the 18th century. The work focuses on the transition from a positive and normative seventeenth-century consideration of theocracy, associated with the Jewish people, to its description in the 18th century as a universal, negative and primitive model. To this end, three authors are examined in their role of emblematic figures of this change, namely: Jacques Basnage, John Toland and Giambattista Vico. The study then highlights a radicalisation phase in mid-eighteenth-century France in the works by Nicolas Antoine Boulanger, and ends with the description of Boulanger's theocracy in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie.