1st Edition

Cameralism and the Enlightenment Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective

Edited By Ere Nokkala, Nicholas B. Miller Copyright 2020
336 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, transnational history and Enlightenment studies to reflect on the dynamic interactions of cameralism, an early modern set of practices and discourses of statecraft prominent in central Europe, with the... Read more

1. Introduction

Ere Nokkala and Nicholas B. Miller

Part I: Interactions

2. On Happiness: Welfare in Cameralist Discourse in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Lars Magnusson

3. Reconciling Private Interests and the Common Good: An Essay on Cameralist Discourse

Hans-Erich Bödeker

4. A Transnational German: JHG von Justi on International Trade

Ere Nokkala

5. The International Politics of Cameralism: The Balance of Power and Dutch Translations of Justi

Koen Stapelbroek

Part II: Widening Perspectives

6. Cameralism and the Politics of Populationism: Comparative Perspectives

Nicholas B. Miller

7. Towards Ecological Statehood?: Cameralism and the Human-Nature Interface in the Eighteenth Century

Richard Hölzl

Part III: Dissemination and Local Mediation

8. Cesare Beccaria as Functionary, Lecturer, Cameralist?: Interpreting Cameralism in Habsburg Lombardy

Alexandra Ortolja-Baird

9. Cameralist Ideas in Portuguese Enlightened Reformism: The Diplomat Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho and His Circuits of Intellectual Exchange

Alexandre Mendes Cunha

10. Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment of the Cameral Sciences

Jonas Gerlings

11. Cameralism in Spain: Polizeywissenschaft and the Bourbon Reforms

Adriana Luna-Fabritius

12. What is Cameralism?

Keith Tribe

13. Cameralism in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Reform, Translations and Academic Mobility

Danila E. Raskov

14. Epilogue

Anthony J. La Vopa

Biography

Ere Nokkala is University Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies.

Nicholas B. Miller is Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences.