Relationships between economy and politics: a study on the political discourse of Andrew Fletcher

• Grant number: 09/09652-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2009
• End date: June 30, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
• Principal Investigator: Eunice Ostrensky
• Grantee: Leandro de Pádua Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The relationships between economy and politics are held to be problematic: on the one hand, the economical discourse seems to reduce the political scope of the human being; on the other hand, the political discourse doesn't pay much attention to man's economical dimension. In order to understand this dilema, this projetc aims at studing Andrew Fletcher political works. According to recent scholarship, Fletcher is one of the first authors to deal with this question, so that Fletcher's work may be understood as an attempt to conciliate the political languages with the vocabularies of incipient comercial societies. This project intends to investigate whether Fletcher considers these two discourses antagonical or not.