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Rethinking The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Author : Annabel Brett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945997X
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking The Foundations of Modern Political Thought written by Annabel Brett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quentin Skinner's classic study The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published by Cambridge in 1978. This was the first of a series of outstanding publications that have changed forever the way the history of political thought is taught and practised. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought looks afresh at the impact of the original work, asks why it still matters, and considers a number of significant agendas that it still inspires. A very distinguished international team of contributors has been assembled, including John Pocock, Richard Tuck and David Armitage, and the result is an unusually powerful and cohesive contribution to the history of ideas, of interest to large numbers of students of early modern history and political thought. In conclusion, Skinner replies to each chapter and presents his own thoughts on the latest trends and the future direction of the history of political thought.

Foundations of Modern International Thought

Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521807077
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Modern International Thought written by David Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful and wide-ranging volume traces the genesis of international intellectual thought, connecting international and global history with intellectual history.

The Age of Reformation

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Reformation written by Quentin Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Relations in Political Thought

Author : Chris Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521575706
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book International Relations in Political Thought written by Chris Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists including John of Paris, Cornelius van Bynkershoek and Friedrich List are also included. Fifty writers are anthologised in what is the largest such collection currently available. The texts, most of which are substantial extracts, are organised into broadly chronological sections, each of which is headed by an introduction that places the work in its historical and philosophical context. Ideal for both students and scholars, the volume also includes biographies and guides to further reading.

Foundations of Civic Engagement

Author : Ralph D. Ellis
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 1461681421
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Civic Engagement written by Ralph D. Ellis and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Civic Engagement is a comprehensive survey and reassessment of the entire field of social and political philosophy. Suitable for use as a primary text for courses on political thought, this book explores the basic arguments of the most important historical and contemporary figures—including Ancient Greek, modern and contemporary theories of communitarianism, social contract, feminism, postmodernsim, Marxism, and theories of communicative actions—and offers a thematic critique and integration of these philosophies.

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Modern Political Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Camelot

Author : Edward L. Rubin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826624
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Camelot written by Edward L. Rubin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government. These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's attitudes, and Arthurian fantasies, about governance. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess. Beyond Camelot explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, drawn from management science and engineering, which describes our administrative government more accurately, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity. This book's proposed framework envisions government as a network of connected units that are authorized by superior units and that supervise subordinate ones. Instead of using inherited, emotion-laden concepts like democracy and legitimacy to describe the relationship between these units and private citizens, it directs attention to the particular interactions between these units and the citizenry, and to the mechanisms by which government obtains its citizens' compliance. Instead of speaking about law and legal rights, it proposes that we address the way that the modern state formulates policy and secures its implementation. Instead of perpetuating outdated ideas that we no longer really believe about the sanctity of private property, it suggests that we focus on the way that resources are allocated in order to establish markets as our means of regulation. Highly readable, Beyond Camelot offers an insightful and provocative discussion of how we must transform our understanding of government to keep pace with the transformation that government itself has undergone.

Adam Smith Reconsidered

Author : Paul Sagar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210837
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Adam Smith Reconsidered written by Paul Sagar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him—and why he matters Adam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral philosopher—one who was prepared to critique markets as well as to praise them. But Smith’s contributions to political theory are still underappreciated and relatively neglected. In this bold, revisionary book, Paul Sagar argues that not only have the fundamentals of Smith’s political thought been widely misunderstood, but that once we understand them correctly, our estimations of Smith as economist and as moral philosopher must radically change. Rather than seeing Smith either as the prophet of the free market, or as a moralist who thought the dangers of commerce lay primarily in the corrupting effects of trade, Sagar shows why Smith is more thoroughly a political thinker who made major contributions to the history of political thought. Smith, Sagar argues, saw war, not commerce, as the engine of political change and he was centrally concerned with the political, not moral, dimensions of—and threats to—commercial societies. In this light, the true contours and power of Smith’s foundational contributions to western political thought emerge as never before. Offering major reinterpretations of Smith’s political, moral, and economic ideas, Adam Smith Reconsidered seeks to revolutionize how he is understood. In doing so, it recovers Smith’s original way of doing political theory, one rooted in the importance of history and the necessity of maintaining a realist sensibility, and from which we still have much to learn.

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Modern Political Thought written by Quentin Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Form and Event: Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom

Author : M. Vatter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940159337X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Between Form and Event: Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom written by M. Vatter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. Machiavelli changed the terms of freedom, requiring that its discourse address the demand for no-rule or non-domination. Political freedom would then develop only through a strategy of antagonism to every form of legitimate domination. This leads to the emergence of modern political life: any institution that wishes to rule legitimately must simultaneously be inscribed with its immanent critique and imminent subversion. For Machiavelli, the possibility of instituting the political form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it in an event of political revolution. This book shows Machiavelli as a philosopher of the modern condition. For him, politics exists in the absence of those absolute moral standards that are called upon to legitimate the domination of man over man. If this understanding lies open to relativism and historicism, it does so in order to render effective the project of reinventing the sense of human freedom. Machiavelli's legacy to modernity is the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality.

Against Individualism

Author : Henry Rosemont
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739199811
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Against Individualism written by Henry Rosemont and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion is devoted to showing how and why the vision of human beings as free, independent and autonomous individuals is and always was a mirage that has served liberatory functions in the past, but has now become pernicious for even thinking clearly about, much less achieving social and economic justice, maintaining democracy, or addressing the manifold environmental and other problems facing the world today. In the second and larger part of the book Rosemont proffers a different vision of being human gleaned from the texts of classical Confucianism, namely, that we are first and foremost interrelated and thus interdependent persons whose uniqueness lies in the multiplicity of roles we each live throughout our lives. This leads to an ethics based on those mutual roles in sharp contrast to individualist moralities, but which nevertheless reflect the facts of our everyday lives very well. The book concludes by exploring briefly a number of implications of this vision for thinking differently about politics, family life, justice, and the development of a human-centered authentic religiousness. This book will be of value to all students and scholars of philosophy, political theory, and Religious, Chinese, and Family Studies, as well as everyone interested in the intersection of morality with their everyday and public lives.

Authority Figures

Author : Torrey Shanks
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271067586
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Authority Figures written by Torrey Shanks and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of Locke’s work. Rhetoric and experience come together, for Locke, to reorient readers’ relation to the past in order to open up alternative political futures. Recognizing this debt sets the stage for a new understanding of the Two Treatises of Government, in which the material and creative force of language is necessary for political critique. Authority Figures draws together political theory and philosophy, the history of science and of rhetoric, and philosophy of language and literary theory to offer an interpretation of Locke’s political thought that shows the ongoing importance of rhetoric for new modes of critique in the seventeenth century. Locke’s thought offers up insights for rethinking the relationship of rhetoric and experience to political critique, as well as the intersections of language and materialism.

Rethinking the Weimar Republic

Author : Anthony McElligott
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849664412
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Weimar Republic written by Anthony McElligott and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK This study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the Weimar Republic by stretching its chronological-political parameters from 1916 to 1936, arguing that neither 1918 nor 1933 constituted distinctive breaks in early 20th-century German history. This book: - Covers all of the key debates such as inheritance of the past, the nature of authority and culture - Rethinks topics of traditional concern such as the economy, Article 48, the Nazi vote and political violence - Discusses hitherto neglected areas, such as provincial life and politics, the role of law and Republican cultural politics

Rethinking Modern Political Theory

Author : John Dunn
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521316958
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Modern Political Theory written by John Dunn and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985-06-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays discusses the weaknesses in modern political theory and suggests how they might begin to be remedied.

Henry Parker and the English Civil War

Author : Michael Mendle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521314
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Henry Parker and the English Civil War written by Michael Mendle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Mendle situates each of Parker's significant tracts in its polemical, intellectual, and political context.

Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824168
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory written by Nancy J. Hirschmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory. Despite the prominence of "state of nature" ideas in modern political theory, Hirschmann argues, theories of freedom actually advance a social constructivist understanding of humanity. By rereading "human nature" in light of this insight, Hirschmann uncovers theories of freedom that are both more historically accurate and more relevant to contemporary politics. Pigeonholing canonical theorists as proponents of either "positive" or "negative" liberty is historically inaccurate, she demonstrates, because theorists deploy both conceptions of freedom simultaneously throughout their work.

Mad for Foucault

Author : Lynne Huffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149182
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Mad for Foucault written by Lynne Huffer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed.