Historians have often either ignored Anacharsis Cloots (1755-1794) or considered him deranged because he claimed to be the \'orator of the human race\' and devised a \'universal republic\' based on the \'sovereignty of the human race\'.
The last chapter summarizes the elements of Cloots\'s Cosmopolitan Republicanism and opens a research programme to other Political thinkers in the age of Atlantic revolutions for historians and Political theorists..
Finally, Republicanism and its principles.
Third, the conception of humanity and individuals in nature and society.
Second, the paradigm of natural law and the role of nature in moral and Political thought.
First, the concept of reason and his understanding of science.
Having established Cloots\'s writings as constituting a philosophical system, the following chapters explores it through the themes laid out in the introduction.
The second chapter explains why he called himself orator and wrote pamphlets, and why contemporary readers should not discard this as non-philosophical.
The first chapter provides a brief overview of his life.
The introduction suggests how 18 th -century French cosmopolitanism was a new philosophical tradition, but was composed of several themes, which the book then analyses in Cloots\'s writings.
By contextualizing them, the book non only rehabilitates Cloots as a Political thinker worthy of consideration, but also argues that his Political Thought constitutes a specific branch of Republicanism in the age of Atlantic revolutions: Cosmopolitan republicanism.
This book is the first comprehensive study of the entire body of Cloots\'s written works and Political actions.
Historians have often either ignored Anacharsis Cloots (1755-1794) or considered him deranged because he claimed to be the \'orator of the human race\' and devised a \'universal republic\' based on the \'sovereignty of the human race\'
