La France des Lumières et l’humanisme commercial. Bilan et perspectives historiographiques

Arnault Skornicki

Histoire, économie & société, 2013, vol. 2013, issue 04, 75-89

Abstract: The concept of commercial humanism was built by J. Pocock in order to indicate the transformation of the modern Republican language (or civic humanism) as a response to the rise of merchant capitalism : by reconciling “virtue” and “trade”, public good and private interest, it has helped the rise of political economy. Hitherto confined to the English-speaking area, the use of this category has recently been expanded to French Enlightenment thanks to a set of important (mostly American) contributions. This article is dedicated to a critical review of the historiographical renewal on commercial humanism. It also gives a critical perspective on the assets and limitations of the Cambridge School in intellectual history.

Date: 2013
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