The history of political theory and other essays
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The history of political theory and other essays
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this collection of essays, John Dunn brings his characteristically acute and penetrative insight to a wide range of political issues. In the first essay, 'The history of political theory', Professor Dunn argues for the importance of a historical perspective in the study of political thought. Other pieces engage with central concepts of political philosophy such as obligation, trust, freedom of conscience and property. A group of studies tackle specific contemporary problems and future dangers, for example racism and the dilemma of humanitarian intervention. The volume as a whole articulates the many dangers, but also the huge importance of, contemporary politics, and provides a representative collection of work by one of the most astute political commentators writing today.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The history of political theory
- 3. Contractualism
- 4. Political obligation
- 5. Trust
- 6. The claim to freedom of conscience: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of worship?
- 7. Property, justice and common good after socialism
- 8. The dilemma of humanitarian intervention: the executive power of the Law of Nature after God
- 9. Specifying and understanding racism
- 10. Political science, political theory, and policymaking in an interdependent world
- 11. Democracy: the politics of making, defending and exemplifying community: Europe 1992
- 12. Is there a contemporary crisis of the nation state?
- 13. Political and economic obstacles to rapid collective learning
- 14. The heritage and future of the European left.
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