The Downfall of All Slavish Hierarchies: Richard Price on Emancipation, Improvement, and Republican Utopia

• Published in: Modern intellectual history Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 81 - 104
• Main Author: Elazar, Yiftah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2022
• Subjects: 18th century; Christianity; Conversation; Narratives; Oppression; Plot (Narrative); Politics; Price, Richard (1949- ); Protestant Reformation; Religion; Utopias; France; Israel

Scholars have been paying increasing attention to the republican theory of liberty developed by the eighteenth-century British radical Richard Price. This article studies his narrative of a revolution of liberty, which consists in the downfall of oppressive powers, the establishment of republican in...