Book contents
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Ideas in Context
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Plutarch in Renaissance France and England
- Part III Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
- Chapter 8 Shedding New Light on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)
- Chapter 9 Plutarch on Stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine
- Chapter 10 Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought
- Chapter 11 Plutarch in French Enlightenment Thought: The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, the Abbé Mably and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
from Part III - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
Book contents
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Ideas in Context
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Plutarch in Renaissance France and England
- Part III Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
- Chapter 8 Shedding New Light on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)
- Chapter 9 Plutarch on Stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine
- Chapter 10 Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought
- Chapter 11 Plutarch in French Enlightenment Thought: The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, the Abbé Mably and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the conclusion to the book I offer an appeal to the distilled principles of the tradition of public humanism as associated with Plutarch reception and developed in the opening chapters of the book. I argue that the tradition of public humanism can inspire resistance to excessive cynicism towards the possibilities of public life and to renew some faith in contemporary democratic life.
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- Plutarch's PrismClassical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800, pp. 410 - 419Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022