Author: Graham Roebuck
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Clarendon and Cultural Continuity
Author: Graham Roebuck
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan
Author: Patricia Springborg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827286
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827286
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newly commissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in a topic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure of Leviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics, metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively they showcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines both the context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating the degree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition of European humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows that Hobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a tradition of reflection on political theory and governance that is still alive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.
Clarendon and Cultural Coninuity
Author: Graham Roebuck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Study of History
Author:
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719058998
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
History is a subject which never stands still. It is always changing its philosophies, its contours, its leading questions, its politics, its conceptual status and its methodologies. This bibliographical guide to the study of history is wide-ranging in scope extending from the ancient world to the 20th century. It deliberately concentrates on modern historians' views, provides a substantial section on the philosophy of history, charts controversies and highlights the continual evolution and diversification of history. The material is logically organized in major areas and subsections, and cross-references are given where appropriate. An index of authors, editors and compilers is also provided.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719058998
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
History is a subject which never stands still. It is always changing its philosophies, its contours, its leading questions, its politics, its conceptual status and its methodologies. This bibliographical guide to the study of history is wide-ranging in scope extending from the ancient world to the 20th century. It deliberately concentrates on modern historians' views, provides a substantial section on the philosophy of history, charts controversies and highlights the continual evolution and diversification of history. The material is logically organized in major areas and subsections, and cross-references are given where appropriate. An index of authors, editors and compilers is also provided.
The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire
Author: William J. Bulman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110890467X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not since antiquity had they been held with any frequency by a popular assembly with responsibility for the fate of a nation. The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. William J. Bulman analyzes its sudden appearance in the English House of Commons and its adoption by the elected assemblies of Britain's Atlantic colonies in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions. These events made it overwhelmingly likely that the United Kingdom, the United States, and their former dependencies would become and remain fundamentally majoritarian polities. Providing an insightful commentary on the state of democratic governance today, this study sheds light on the nature, promise, and perils of majority rule.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110890467X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This expansive history of the origins of majority rule in modern representative government charts the emergence of majority voting as a global standard for decision-making in popular assemblies. Majority votes had, of course, been held prior to 1642, but not since antiquity had they been held with any frequency by a popular assembly with responsibility for the fate of a nation. The crucial moment in the global triumph of majority rule was its embrace by the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its empire. William J. Bulman analyzes its sudden appearance in the English House of Commons and its adoption by the elected assemblies of Britain's Atlantic colonies in the age of the English, Glorious, and American Revolutions. These events made it overwhelmingly likely that the United Kingdom, the United States, and their former dependencies would become and remain fundamentally majoritarian polities. Providing an insightful commentary on the state of democratic governance today, this study sheds light on the nature, promise, and perils of majority rule.
The Uses of History in Early Modern England
Author: Paulina Kewes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780873282192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780873282192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher Description
Thomas Hobbes
Author: Preston T. King
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415080811
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This collection brings together the rich periodical literature on one of the greatest English philosophers. These definitive essays range across Hobbes' work in ethics, metaphysics, law, politics, history, science and religion.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415080811
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This collection brings together the rich periodical literature on one of the greatest English philosophers. These definitive essays range across Hobbes' work in ethics, metaphysics, law, politics, history, science and religion.
The Putney Debates of 1647
Author: Michael Mendle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521650151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the autumn of 1647, soldiers and officers of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army held discussions near London on the constitution and future of England. Would there be a king and lords, or not? Would suffrage be limited to property holders? Would democratic changes lead to anarchy? Three generations of scholars examine the debates in their multiple contexts: the debates themselves, the nature and history of the text that has come down to us, the army's immediate concerns, the role of Leveller and other democratic ideas, the wider ramifications for politics and gender, and the place of the debates and the Levellers in later historical consciousness. The debates receive here their most sustained and varied scrutiny, resulting in a much richer appreciation of the very words reported to have been spoken by Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Thomas Rainborough, and the others, during those three tense and exhilarating days.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521650151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the autumn of 1647, soldiers and officers of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army held discussions near London on the constitution and future of England. Would there be a king and lords, or not? Would suffrage be limited to property holders? Would democratic changes lead to anarchy? Three generations of scholars examine the debates in their multiple contexts: the debates themselves, the nature and history of the text that has come down to us, the army's immediate concerns, the role of Leveller and other democratic ideas, the wider ramifications for politics and gender, and the place of the debates and the Levellers in later historical consciousness. The debates receive here their most sustained and varied scrutiny, resulting in a much richer appreciation of the very words reported to have been spoken by Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Thomas Rainborough, and the others, during those three tense and exhilarating days.
The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination
Author: Claude J. Summers
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826261698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826261698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
'Settling the Peace of the Church'
Author: N. H. Keeble
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199688532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A collection of nine essays on the context and consequences of the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the subsequent "Great Ejection," in which around two thousand ministers, teachers, and university fellows gave up their positions rather than submit to the conditions of the Act.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199688532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A collection of nine essays on the context and consequences of the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the subsequent "Great Ejection," in which around two thousand ministers, teachers, and university fellows gave up their positions rather than submit to the conditions of the Act.