Author: John Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009289365
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history.
Author: James Henderson Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521477727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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This book, first published in 1992, presents a comprehensive scholarly account of the development of European political thinking through the Renaissance and the reformation to the 'scientific revolution' and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. It is written by a highly distinguished team of contributors.
Author: J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226671399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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In his first essay, "Languages and Their Implications," J. G. A. Pocock announces the emergence of the history of political thought as a discipline apart from political philosophy. Traditionally, "history" of political thought has meant a chronological ordering of intellectual systems without attention to political languages; but it is through the study of those languages and of their changes, Pocock claims, that political thought will at last be studied historically. Pocock argues that the solution has already been approached by, first, the linguistic philosophers, with their emphasis on the importance of language study to understanding human thought, and, second, by Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, with its notion of controlling intellectual paradigms. Those paradigms within and through which the scientist organizes his intellectual enterprise may well be seen as analogous to the worlds of political discourse in which political problems are posed and political solutions are proffered. Using this notion of successive paradigms, Pocock demonstrates its effectiveness by analyzing a wide range of subjects, from ancient Chinese philosophy to Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Burke.
Author: John Greville Agard Pocock
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: James Henderson Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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This volume examines the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years.
Author: Alan Ryan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871404656
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1147
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Looks at the history of politics from Hobbes to the twenty-first century.
Author: J. G .A. Pocock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Selected essays of arguably the greatest and most influential historian of ideas of modern times.
Author: Terence Ball
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Author: Dario Castiglione
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521782340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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How the history of political thought relates to politics, history and culture of various nations.
Author: Bruce Haddock
Publisher: Polity
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought, tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient Greece, through different forms of community, state and empire, to today's global concerns. Bruce Haddock highlights the bewildering variety of contexts that have framed political thinking, yet also displays structural features that have proved to be remarkably stable over time. An important theme in the book is the need to see political philosophy, even in its most abstract formulations, as a response to historically contingent circumstances, without limiting its relevance to those circumstances. The emphasis throughout is on political thinking as a response to hard choices. Major thinkers covered include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Lenin, Schmitt, Nietzsche, Foucault, Oakeshott and Rawls. The book treats political philosophy and theory as a tentative engagement with a fractured and controversial past. Yet political thinking remains the exercise of a burden of a responsibility that is inescapable for us. Haddock introduces a history that continues to shape our understanding of ourselves as political and historical creatures. A History of Political Thought will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history and philosophy.
