Harrington, Hume, and the Dilemmas of Republicanism.

• In Event: Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment in Politics and the Arts

Brief Overview

I argue that there are significant similarities between Hume’s and Harrington’s political thoughts, which point to the more general inadequacy of ‘republicanism’ as a historiographic category.

Author

• Gio Maria Tessarolo, University of California-Berkeley