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First published in Italian in 1990, Fiammetta Palladini’s ground-breaking study of Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694) remains one of the most important discussions of the subject to date. Now available in English for the first time, Palladini's book cuts through the existing field of Pufendorf studies, laying bare its inherited templates and tacit assumptions. Palladini is thus able to peel back the ‘Grotian’ commentary in which the great thinker had been shrouded, revealing a Pufendorf well-known in the 1680s—a formidable and dangerous natural jurist and political theorist—but doubly obscured in the 1980s and still today, by a philosophical history that flies too high to see him, and by a commentary literature that too often does not like what it sees. David Saunders’ lucid translation carries Palladini’s argument into English with maximum fidelity.
Translation of: Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes. Per una reinterpretazione del giusnaturalismo moderno (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1990).
Translation of: Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes. Per una reinterpretazione del giusnaturalismo moderno (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1990).
Price: $172.00
Pages: 254
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources
Publication Date:
05 December 2019
ISBN: 9789004388604
Format: Hardcover
Fiammetta Palladini graduated in Philosophy at the University of Rome – La Sapienza in 1965. Until her retirement she was Primo ricercatore at the National Council for Research, Rome, based in Berlin. She has published several books and many papers on Samuel Pufendorf, on Jean Barbeyrac, and on 17th century moral and political philosophy, including Discussioni seicentesche su Samuel Pufendorf (1978), Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes (1990), La Biblioteca di Samuel Pufendorf (1999), and Die Berliner Huguenotten und der Fall Barbeyrac (2011).
David Saunders is Emeritus Professor, Griffith University, Australia. An Oxford graduate with a 1973 Grenoble doctorate in Italian, his works include Anti-lawyers: Religion and the Critics of Law and State (1997), “The natural jurisprudence of Jean Barbeyrac: translation as an art of political adjustment” (Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003) and, co-edited with Ian Hunter, Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (2003).
Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. He was awarded his doctorate by Griffith University in 1987, and is the author of various works on natural law and the history of political thought. These include Rival Enlightenments (2001), The Secularisation of the Confessional State (2007), “Public Law and the Limits of Philosophy” (Critical Inquiry, 2018) and, co-authored with David Saunders, “Bringing the State to England” (History of Political Thought, 2003).
David Saunders is Emeritus Professor, Griffith University, Australia. An Oxford graduate with a 1973 Grenoble doctorate in Italian, his works include Anti-lawyers: Religion and the Critics of Law and State (1997), “The natural jurisprudence of Jean Barbeyrac: translation as an art of political adjustment” (Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003) and, co-edited with Ian Hunter, Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (2003).
Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland. He was awarded his doctorate by Griffith University in 1987, and is the author of various works on natural law and the history of political thought. These include Rival Enlightenments (2001), The Secularisation of the Confessional State (2007), “Public Law and the Limits of Philosophy” (Critical Inquiry, 2018) and, co-authored with David Saunders, “Bringing the State to England” (History of Political Thought, 2003).