Author: James Mackinnon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A History of Modern Liberty
Author: James Mackinnon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A History of Modern Political Thought
Author: Gary Browning
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019150484X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019150484X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.
A History of Modern Culture
Author: Preserved Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108074642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Published 1930-4, this two-volume work considers the emergence of modern society in the wake of the Protestant reformation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108074642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
Published 1930-4, this two-volume work considers the emergence of modern society in the wake of the Protestant reformation.
Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume I (1930)
Author: Preserved Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351349562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The best excuse for writing the history of anything is the intrinsic interest of the subject. Most men of past generations have thought, and many men still think, of politics as the warp and woof of social life. History for a long time therefore treated chiefly politics. Then came the economists to arouse the interest of scholars and of the public in the production and distribution of wealth. Economic history rightly absorbs much attention, for it illumines, with its new searchlight, many a dark corner of the past, and explains many features of present-day society. But to many men today the most interesting thing about society is its culture; just as the most interesting thing about an individual is his thought. Indeed, it has begun to be suspected that even politics and economics, each sometimes worshipped as a First Cause, are but secondary effects of somthing still deeper, namely, of the progress of man's intellectual life. The present volume aims to exhibit, as a unified whole, thestate and progress of modern culture.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351349562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
The best excuse for writing the history of anything is the intrinsic interest of the subject. Most men of past generations have thought, and many men still think, of politics as the warp and woof of social life. History for a long time therefore treated chiefly politics. Then came the economists to arouse the interest of scholars and of the public in the production and distribution of wealth. Economic history rightly absorbs much attention, for it illumines, with its new searchlight, many a dark corner of the past, and explains many features of present-day society. But to many men today the most interesting thing about society is its culture; just as the most interesting thing about an individual is his thought. Indeed, it has begun to be suspected that even politics and economics, each sometimes worshipped as a First Cause, are but secondary effects of somthing still deeper, namely, of the progress of man's intellectual life. The present volume aims to exhibit, as a unified whole, thestate and progress of modern culture.
The Westminster Review
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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The Social Sciences
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A History of Modern Liberty
Author: James Mackinnon
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today
Author: Peter Augustine Lawler
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739102237
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and postmodernity, repentance and self-limitation, and philosophy and politics. These tensions are explored through the works of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Augustine, and Tocqueville, but the contributors engage a wide variety of texts from popular culture, American literature--Flannery O'Connor receives notable attention--and social theory to create a remarkably comprehensive, if far from harmonious, introduction to political philosphy today.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739102237
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and postmodernity, repentance and self-limitation, and philosophy and politics. These tensions are explored through the works of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Augustine, and Tocqueville, but the contributors engage a wide variety of texts from popular culture, American literature--Flannery O'Connor receives notable attention--and social theory to create a remarkably comprehensive, if far from harmonious, introduction to political philosphy today.
Hegel and History
Author: Will Dudley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438429118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Comprehensive overview of Hegel’s thought on history.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438429118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Comprehensive overview of Hegel’s thought on history.
Perspectives on Feminist Political Thought in European History
Author: Tjitske Akkerman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136189645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode of analysing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the middle ages.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136189645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode of analysing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the middle ages.