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… one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among many others. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Friendship Merchants Patronage Whigs The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) was one of the earliest and most influential … one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among …

… behind the virtue of obedience. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy People > Philosophy Mots-clés Civility Conflict Friendship Sovereignty Violence War The refutation of natural sociability The majority of political treaties, from the … century, begin with the premiss that what distinguishes man from the animals is his capacity for language and friendship. The theory that man was a Zôon politikon (a political animal, whose natural and political sociality were … , (DeCi, I, 2, 93-94). Here, the purpose of political association is redefined: communal ‘well-being,’ life lived in friendship and equality, is superseded by a civil society where the ultimate goal is ‘commodious,’ self-interested …

… creation. People > Art and Literature Practices > Reading & Writing Mots-clés Anglomania Correspondence France Friendship Theatre Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, née Laboras de Mézières, was born in Paris on October 23, 1713. At the age of … network of epistolary sociability which thrived during the Enlightenment would form the underpinnings of her enduring friendships with David Garrick and Robert Liston. 1 1 . Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick, Robert … du Goût. The correspondence she exchanged with Garrick and Liston over some twenty years is a testament not only to the friendship that united them, but also to the Franco-British sociability that drew its vitality from the vast literary and …