Political Reason and the Language of Change

FORTHCOMING OPEN ACCESS TITLE This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms". "Reform" today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures. "Im...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1215052025-03-20T14:36:02Z Political Reason and the Language of Change Luna-Fabritius, Adriana Nokkala, Ere Seppel, Marten Tribe, Keith ESHET History of Economic Thought Isnard Northern Europe Richard van den Berg Routledge Historical Resources reform FORTHCOMING OPEN ACCESS TITLE This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms". "Reform" today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures. "Improvement" has a more general application, emphasising the positive outcome to which "reform" is oriented. But the language of reform is today used of historical personalities and movements that did not themselves use the term, and who in many cases were not necessarily seeking the progressive change that we would understand today. The activities of "reform" were embedded in contemporary politics, and while "improvement" was part of a contemporary vocabulary, its real presence has been obscured by the range of natural languages in which it was expressed. Contributors to this volume seek to establish what was meant by contemporary usage. Bringing together scholars of Russia, Southern, Western, Central and Northern Europe, this collection sheds new light on both common and divergent features of a political process too often treated as a uniform movement towards modernity. This volume is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in Enlightenment studies, intellectual history, and conceptual history in early modern Europe. 2023-11-16T11:20:01Z 2023-11-16T11:20:01Z 2023-09-26T15:00:44Z 2023 book ONIX_20230926_9781000644135_38 OCN: 1330202262 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76420 9781000644135 9781032073897 9781032073903 9781003206675 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121505 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76420/1/9781000644135.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76420/1/9781000644135.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76420/1/9781000644135.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76420/1/9781000644135.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003206675 10.4324/9781003206675 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781000644135 9781032073897 9781032073903 9781003206675 Routledge 284 open access
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