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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9780511490569
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490569
Subjects:
History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Ideas in Context (70)
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Book description

Harro Höpfl presents here a full-length study of the single most influential organized group of scholars and pamphleteers in early modern Europe (1540–1630), namely the Jesuits. He explores the academic and political controversies in which they were engaged in and their contribution to academic discourse around ideas of 'the state' and 'politics'. He pays particular attention to their actual teaching concerning doctrines for whose menacing practical implications Jesuits generally were vilified: notably tyrannicide, the papal power to depose rulers, the legitimacy of 'Machiavellian' policies in dealing with heretics and the justifiability of breaking faith with heretics. Höpfl further explores the paradox of the Jesuits' political activities being at once the subject of conspiratorial fantasies but at the same time being widely acknowledged as among the foremost intellects of their time, with their thought freely cited and appropriated. This is an important work of scholarship.

Reviews

Review of the hardback:'An important work of scholarship.'

Source: The Universe

Review of the hardback:'… a remarkable work of intellectual history.'

Source: Political Studies Review

Review of the hardback:'… a lively and masterful survey of Jesuit political thought … Höpfl does an excellent job as an historian …'

Source: The Heythrop Journal

Review of the hardback:'Harro Höpfl's long-awaited book sets itself an ambitious task … Höpfl's project is to chartacterize the political thinking of the society of Jesus as a whole … In terms of substantive analysis, Höpfl's is by far the best treatment available in English of the more directly political side of Jesuit writing … the appearance of such an intelligent, thought-provoking, refreshingly idiosyncratic but still thorough treatment of a neglected subject is enormously to be welcomed.'

Source: History of Political Thought

Review of the hardback:'… meticulously researched, scholarly work, written with suavity and flair, dealing carefully with much of the huge amount of material which awaits the researcher in this field.'

Source: English Historical Review

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