Essays on political philosophy

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Essays on political philosophy

edited by Patrick Riley

(Library of the history of ideas, v. 6)

University of Rochester Press, 1992

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"The articles in this volume first appeared in the Journal of the history of ideas"--Acknowledgements

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Twenty-three influential essays on political philosophy,culled from the published riches of the JHIover the past half-century. The best political theory pieces from the Journal including contributions by SHLOMO AVINERI, LEWIS WHITE BECK, ISAIAH BERLIN,ERNST CASSIRER, JOHN DEWEY, A.O. LOVEJOY, C.B. MACPHERSON, JUDITHSHKLAR, JEAN STAROBINSKI, and LEOSTRAUSS are here presented with a substantial editor's Introduction. They cover the whole of Western political and moral philosophy from the pre-Socraticsto Nietzsche and Freud; the thought of the Enlightenment receives particularly thorough coverage.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Ancient political philosophy: Plato's treatment of the theme of the good life and his criticism of the Spartan ideal, John Herman Randall, Jr.
  • from nationalism to cosmopolitanism in the Graeco-Roman world, Moses Hadas. Part 2 Political thought of the Renaissance: new light on the political writers of the Florentine Renaissance, Hans Baron
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - a study in the history of Renaissance ideas (second chapter), Ernst Cassirer
  • the composition and structure of Machiavelli's "Discorsi", Felix Gilbert
  • (on Quention Skinner's) "Foundations of Modern Political Thought", Donald R. Kelley. Part 3 The 17th century: history and law in the 17th century - Pufendorf, Leonard Krieger
  • Leibniz's principle of international justice, Paul Schrecker
  • Locke's natural law and the foundation of politics, Martin Seliger. Part 4 Enlightenment political thought: Jean d'Alembert and the rehabilitation of history, Judith Shklar
  • eloquence and liberty, Jean Starobinski
  • Hume - sceptic and Tory?, Marjorie Grene
  • the problem of truth and falsehood in the Age of Enlightenment, Lester Gilbert Crocker
  • Kant and the right of revolution, Lewis W. Beck. Part 5 19th-century political philosophy: the problem of war in Hegel's thought, Shlomo Avineri
  • reply to Orsini (on Feuerbach, Hegel and Marx), Isaiah Berlin
  • liberalism and aristocracy in the French Restoration, George A. Kelly
  • Nietzsche and the bourgeois spirit, Paul Tillich
  • James Marsh and American philosophy, John Dewey. Part 6 Problematical ideas in the history of political thought: the meaning of romanticism for the historian of ideas, Arthur O. Lovejoy
  • the meanings of individualism, Steven Lukes
  • the economic penetration of political theory - some hypotheses, C.B. Macpherson
  • political philosophy and history, Leo Strauss.

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  • NCID
    BA17238995
  • ISBN
    • 187882208X
  • LCCN
    92004402
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Rochester, N.Y.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxviii, 385 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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