In defence of politics
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In defence of politics
（Continuum impacts : changing minds）
Continuum, 2005
5th ed
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"First edition published 1962 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Fifth edition published 2000 by Continuum. This edition published 2005"--T.p. verso
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Description
Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedoma nd order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is necessarily imperfect, messy anmd complex, yet his book defends it against htose who would identify it with (and reduce it to) ideology, nationalism, technology or populist democracy. In this fifth edition, Crick warns us that present-day politicians are in danger of threatening both citizenship and common humanity. He discusses the popular distrust for politicians in both the UK and USA, arguing that they have lowered the level of publicdebate for short-term gain; and he discusses how suchvshort-termism is preventing timely attempts to tackle despoliation of the global environment.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Fifth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Nature of Political Rule
- 2. A Defence of Politics Against Ideology
- 3. A Defence of Politics Against Democracy
- 4. A Defence of Politics against Nationalism
- 5. A Defence of Politics Against Technology
- 6. A Defence of Politics Against False Friends
- The non-political conservative
- The a-political liberal
- The anti-political socialist
- 7. In Praise of Politics
- Three Footnotes
- A Footnote to Rally the Academic Professors of politics (1964)
- A Footnote to Rally Fellow Socialists (1982)
- A Final Footnote to Rally Those Who Grudge the Price (1992)
- Epilogue (2000)
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