This volume goes beyond the typical focus on Britain and France in studies of political economy, widening perspectives about the dissemination of ideas of governance, happiness and reform to focus on multidirectional exchanges across continental Europe and beyond during the eighteenth century. Emphasizing the practice of theory, it proposes the study of the porosity of ideas in their exchange, transmission and mediation between spaces and discourses as a key dimension of cultural and intellectual history.
Ere Nokkala is University Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies.
Nicholas B. Miller is Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences.