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Author : Charles Howard McIlwain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Political Thought in the West written by Charles Howard McIlwain and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168426X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Citizens to Lords written by Ellen Meiksins Wood and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history-a significant departure not only from the standard abstract history of ideas but also from other contextual methods. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon, while largely the work of members or clients of dominant classes, was shaped by complex interactions among proprietors, labourers and states. Western political theory, Wodd argues, owes much of its vigour, and also many ambiguities, to these complex and often contradictory relations. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus and Sophocles, through the Roman Republic of Cicero and the Empire of St Paul and St Augustine, to the medieval world of Averroes, Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, Citizens to Lords offers a rich, dynamic exploration of thinkers and ideas that have indelibly stamped our modern world.
Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136623426
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book A History of Medieval Political Thought written by Joseph Canning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore. Finally in the period from 1290 to 1450, Canning focuses on the confrontation with political reality in ideas of church and state, and in juristic thought.
Author : Charles Howard McIlwain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Growth of Political Thought in the West written by Charles Howard McIlwain and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. M. Spellman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230343783
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Western Political Thought written by W. M. Spellman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief narrative survey of political thought over the past two millennia explores key ideas that have shaped Western political traditions. Beginning with the Ancient Greeks' classical emphasis on politics as an independent sphere of activity, the book goes on to consider the medieval and early modern Christian views of politics and its central role in providing spiritual leadership. Concluding with a discussion of present-day political thought, W. M. Spellman explores the return to the ancient understanding of political life as a more autonomous sphere, and one that doesn't relate to anything beyond the physical world. Setting the work of major and lesser-known political philosophers within its historical context, the book offers a balanced and considered overview of the topic, taking into account the religious values, inherited ideas and social settings of the writers. Assuming no prior knowledge and written in a highly accessible style, A Short History of Western Political Thought is ideal for those seeking to develop an understanding of this fascinating and important subject.
Author : Hwa-Yong Lee
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820495316
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Political Representation in the Later Middle Ages written by Hwa-Yong Lee and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the theory of political representation as articulated by the fourteenth-century Italian thinker, Marsilius. It combines historical research on Marsilius with an analysis of the contemporary theory of representative democracy. Modern theorization of political representation identifies the relation between the represented and the representative as a central theme. In order to assess how a representative system can reasonably be expected to operate for the benefit of the whole people, political representation must be understood through a comprehensive conception of the political process as a whole. To this end, Marsilius provides us with a perspective from which to examine the philosophical foundations of political representation and to reconsider the nature and significance of political representation - that is, an understanding of political representation in terms of the transfer of power. This book suggests that in modern democratic societies where the people effectively cease to be a political agent and their formal authority becomes increasingly notional, Marsilius' conception of political representation, which rejects the depoliticisation and deauthorisation of ordinary citizens, has much to offer. It can, in principle, offer a coherent alternative approach to building political representation as an effective scheme of public action for all.
Author : Joseph Canning
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 041501350X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book A History of Medieval Political Thought, 300-1450 written by Joseph Canning and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers four periods, each with a different focus. From 300 to 750 Canning examines Christian ideas of rulership. The often neglected centuries from 750 to 1050, the Carolingian period and its aftermath, are given special attention. From 1050 to 1290 the conflict between temporal and spiritual power and the revived legacy of antiquity comes to the fore.
Author : J. S. McClelland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134812108
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book A History of Western Political Thought written by J. S. McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinkers and texts * includes 40 biographies of key political thinkers * offers original views of theorists and highlights those which may have been unjustly neglected * develops the wider themes of political thought and the relations between thinkers over time.
Author : Charles Howard McIlwain
Publisher : New York : The Macmillan Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Political Thought in the West written by Charles Howard McIlwain and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1932 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Henderson Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423885
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought C.350-c.1450 written by James Henderson Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years.
Author : Cary J. Nederman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800373805
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought written by Cary J. Nederman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical methodology, traditions, epochs, and classic authors and texts, spanning from ancient Greece until the nineteenth century.
Author : Christopher Rowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521481366
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought written by Christopher Rowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive reference work on Greek and Roman political thought from the age of Homer to late antiquity, first published in 2000.
Author : Stuart Elden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604128X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Birth of Territory written by Stuart Elden and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory. Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts such as sovereignty, rights, and justice. While territory continues to matter politically, and territorial disputes and arrangements are studied in detail, the concept of territory itself is often neglected today. Where did the idea of exclusive ownership of a portion of the earth’s surface come from, and what kinds of complexities are hidden behind that seemingly straightforward definition? The Birth of Territory provides a detailed account of the emergence of territory within Western political thought. Looking at ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern thought, Stuart Elden examines the evolution of the concept of territory from ancient Greece to the seventeenth century to determine how we arrived at our contemporary understanding. Elden addresses a range of historical, political, and literary texts and practices, as well as a number of key players—historians, poets, philosophers, theologians, and secular political theorists—and in doing so sheds new light on the way the world came to be ordered and how the earth’s surface is divided, controlled, and administered. “The Birth of Territory is an outstanding scholarly achievement . . . a book that already promises to become a ‘classic’ in geography, together with very few others published in the past decades.” —Political Geography “An impressive feat of erudition.” —American Historical Review
Author : Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521369336
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (693 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy written by Norman Kretzmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of philosophy from 1100-1600 concentrating on the Aristotelian tradition in the Latin Christian West. "will long remain the major guide to later medieval philosophy and related topics. Most of the essays are exciting and challenging, some of them truly brilliant." --Speculum
Author : William J. Buxton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442243392
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Harold Innis's History of Communications written by William J. Buxton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis’s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications—but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript. Here, Innis (1894-1952) examines the development of paper and printing from antiquity in Asia through to 16th century Europe. He demonstrates how the paper/printing nexus intersected with a broad range of other phenomena, including administrative structures, geopolitics, militarism, public opinion, aesthetics, cultural diffusion, religion, education, reception, production processes, technology, labor relations, and commerce, as well as the lives of visionary figures. Buxton, Cheney, and Heyer knit the chapters into a cohesive narrative and help readers navigate Innis’s observations by summarizing the heavily detailed factual material that peppered the unpublished manuscript. They provide further context for Innis’s arguments by adding annotations, references, and pertinent citations to his other writings. The end result is both a testament to Innis’s status as a canonical figure in the study of communication and a surprisingly relevant contribution to how we might think about the current sea change in all aspects of social, cultural, political, and economic life stemming from the global shift to digital communication.
Author : Neal Wood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520911288
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Cicero's Social and Political Thought written by Neal Wood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-02-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this close examination of the social and political thought of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Neal Wood focuses on Cicero's conceptions of state and government, showing that he is the father of constitutionalism, the archetype of the politically conservative mind, and the first to reflect extensively on politics as an activity.
Author : Rosich Gerard Rosich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408001
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Trouble with Democracy written by Rosich Gerard Rosich and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western political thought has long maintained that democracy, once achieved, is here to stay. This view appears to be supported by successive 'waves of democratisation' across the world but, in truth, the political situation of our time is much more ambiguous. On the one hand, the commitment to democracy seems to be more widely shared than ever; on the other, popular will has ever less impact on political decisions because of alleged constraints in an era of 'globalisation'. Existing democracies suffer from a combination of technocratic governance and populist reactions. Global political communication has foundered with addressing urgent problems such as climate change, global social justice and economic-financial crises. By placing political condition of our time in its long-term historical context, this book radically reconsiders key issues of political thought and gives you a comparative exploration of the current experiences of democracy in several world-regions.
