Antonio Trampus

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an in-depth account of the reception of Vattel’s chief work. Vattel’s focus on the myth of good government became a strong argument for republicanism, the survival of small states, drafting constitutions and reform projects and fighting everyday battles for freedom in different geographical, linguistic and social contexts. The book complicates the picture of Vattel’s enduring success and usefulness, showing too how the work was published and translated to criticize and denounce the dangerousness of these ideas. In doing so, it opens up new avenues of research beyond histories of international law, political and economic thought.

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an in-depth account of the reception of Vattel’s chief work. Vattel’s focus on the myth of good government became a strong argument for republicanism, the survival of small states, drafting constitutions and reform projects and fighting everyday battles for freedom in different geographical, linguistic and social contexts. The book complicates the picture of Vattel’s enduring success and usefulness, showing too how the work was published and translated to criticize and denounce the dangerousness of these ideas. In doing so, it opens up new avenues of research beyond histories of international law, political and economic thought.

Ce tome XXVI, consacr au dernier grand texte de th orie politique publi du vivant de Constant, le Commentaire sur l'ouvrage de Filangieri (1822-1824), offre le texte critique de l' dition originale, avec les variantes du manuscrit reconstitu partiellement, des commentaires qui se proposent de pr senter le contexte de l'ouvrage, et une s rie de documents compl mentaires qui s' chelonnent entre 1800 (moment o Constant a lu pour la premi re fois le texte de Filangieri) et 1826 (l'ann e de la mise l'index de son Commentaire par l'Inquisition romaine). Le Commentaire compl te les Principes de politique de 1815 et les ouvrages ou brochures politiques que l'auteur a r unis dans son Cours de politique constitutionnelle dont le dernier volume a paru en 1820. Les OEuvres compl tes offrent donc, avec ce tome XXVI, la s rie compl te de ces textes qui constituent une philosophie politique toujours d'actualit .