{"product_id":"9781786942272-dargenson-considerations-sur-le-gouver","title":"D’Argenson, Considérations sur le gouvernement, a critical edition, with other political texts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first critical edition of the marquis d’Argenson’s \u003ci\u003eConsidérations sur le gouvernement\u003c\/i\u003e, this text brings to light the full extent of d’Argenson’s scathing indictment of the Old Regime French political and social order as well as the reform plan he proposed to introduce democracy within the absolute monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRené-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’Argenson (1694-1757), minister of state and author, was one of the boldest critics of the social and political structure of Old Regime France to put pen to paper in the eighteenth century. His \u003ci\u003eConsidérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France\u003c\/i\u003e advanced a scathing indictment of the existing order alongside a far-reaching reform plan to spread democracy and obviate aristocracy within the monarchy. Manuscripts of the \u003ci\u003eConsidérations\u003c\/i\u003e circulated clandestinely among \u003ci\u003ephilosophes\u003c\/i\u003e and other political writers such as the abbé Saint-Pierre, Voltaire, and Rousseau until its posthumous publication in 1764.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first critical edition of d’Argenson’s \u003ci\u003eConsidérations\u003c\/i\u003e, based on four different manuscripts and presented here with a selection of d’Argenson’s other political writings that have never been published. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Andrew Jainchill introduces d’Argenson’s treatise with an essay interpreting his political ideas, showing the important changes he made to the different manuscripts over the decades he worked on the text, and situating within the political and intellectual context d’Argenson’s political project to introduce democracy into absolute monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40875520983137,"sku":"9781786942272","price":128.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29866191.jpg?v=1725805008","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781786942272-dargenson-considerations-sur-le-gouver","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}