Vrijheid, burgerlijk activisme en kritiek op het absolutisme: enkele casussen van het Nederlandse republicanisme in de verlichting
Freedom, Civil Activism and Critics of the Absolutism: Some Cases of the Dutch Republicanism in Enlightenment

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this contribution is to show how republican thought in the Netherlands developed during the last decades of the eighteenth century. To this end, I present three cases of Dutch republicanism, which, I believe, were the most crucial in the formation of Dutch identity in the early modern period. When analysing these cases, I try to show how the republican message came about: I look both at the ideology that was embedded in republican concepts, and at the rhetorical representation of republican ideas – how, in the form of texts and prints, they were presented to the reader.

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