Montesquieu's Russia, or the impossible distancing of despotism

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Speaker(s)

Hugo Toudic

University of Chicago

Events

Symposium

27 Jun 2024

9:30 - 10:15am

Anne Cheng & Henry Laurens

What the despot owes to the caliph, or how the figure of the Eastern despot has been nourished…

Life and death of empires : Kang Youwei (1858-1927), a Chinese reformer in R…

The theme of despotism in early modern Japan (1868-1889) : translations and …

Transformative or conservative despotism ? Contrasting readings of Russian a…

The Palestinian Authority, a case of Arab authoritarianism ?

Montesquieu's Russia, or the impossible distancing of despotism

Speaker(s)

Hugo Toudic

Events

Introduction

The Persian-Achaemenid empire, paradigm of " Asian despotism

The climate according to Montesquieu : strength or curse of despotism…

Montesquieu's Russia, or the impossible distancing of despotism

Proof from India. Oriental despotism from Bernier to Anquetil-Duperron

What the despot owes to the caliph, or how the figure of the Eastern despot has been nourished…

Life and death of empires : Kang Youwei (1858-1927), a Chinese reformer in R…

The theme of despotism in early modern Japan (1868-1889) : translations and …

Transformative or conservative despotism ? Contrasting readings of Russian a…

The Palestinian Authority, a case of Arab authoritarianism ?

Conclusion : Despotism, a product of the Enlightenment ?

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