Ancients and barbarians. Politics and history

Authors

  • Dario Roldan , ,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/es.v58i1.9471

Keywords:

history, politics, political thinking, restauration, Guizot, Constant

Abstract

The text analyses the association between political reflection and historical interpretation in two great liberal publicists of the Restoration (1814–1830). The period is essential since, in those years, the conception of history was renewed and political reflection was reformulated as a consequence of the impact produced by the «revolutionary cycle» (1770–1815). The article parallels two different historical and political universes: the first, proposed by Constant, was inspired by the anachronism of the Ancients, which Constant formulated opposing the liberty of the ancients with that of the Moderns to combine popular sovereignty with individual liberties; the second, proposed by F. Guizot, took up a new interpretation of European history,
abstracting from the classical world in order to make representative government, wose origin was established in that history, compatible with capacitaire suffrage, inspired in the critique of Germanic assemblies

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Published

2020-07-16

How to Cite

Ancients and barbarians. Politics and history. (2020). Estudios Sociales, 58(1), 155-181. https://doi.org/10.14409/es.v58i1.9471