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A history of Western political thought
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Title
A history of Western political thought / J.S. McClelland.
ISBN
0203980743
0415119618
0415119626
6610172951
9780203980743
9780415119610
9780415119627
9786610172955
0203980743
0415119626
9780415119627
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 810 pages)
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Summary
"A History of Western Political Thought traces the development and consolidation of a tradition of Western political thought from ancient Greece through to the development of the modern state, the American Enlightenment, the rise of liberalism and the very different reactions it engendered. McClelland's definition of politics encompasses both power wielded from above and power threatened from below. The sustained pursuit of this theme leads him to present an original and often controversial view of the theorists of the received canon and to add some writers to that canon whom he feels have been unjustly neglected."--Publisher's website
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: McClelland, J.S. History of Western political thought. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. The Greeks. Ancient Greek political thought ; Socrates and Plato ; The guardians of the state and justice ; Aristotle and the science of politics
pt. 2. Romans and Roman Catholics. From polis to cosmopolis ; Christian Cosmopolitanism: St Augustine's City of God ; Christendom and it's law: St Thomas Aquinas
pt. 3. Romans and humanists: the reinvention of sovereignty. The reinvention of sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua ; Machiavelli: The Prince and the virtuous republic
pt. 4. The theory of the social contract. The rise and extraordinary persistence of the theory of the social contract ; Social contract I: The Hobbesian version ; Social contract II: The Lockian version ; Social contract III: The Rousseauist version
pt. 5. Enlightenment and the development of the modern state. The modernity of the modern state ; The politics of enlightenment ; Enlightenment and government through law: Montesquieu ; The American enlightenment: Jefferson, Crèvecour, Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Paine ; The limitations of enlightenment: Hume and Burke
pt. 6. The rise of liberalism. The rise of liberalism ; Liberalism comes of age: Bentham and John Stuart Mill ; Liberalism in maturity and decline: Spencer, Sumner and Green
pt. 7. Reactions to liberalism 1: Hegel
the state and dialectic. Hegel and the hegelian context of Marxism
pt. 8. Reactions to liberalism 2: socialism. Marxism and other socialisms ; Social democracy: Bernstein and Crosland ; The synthesis of Jacobinism and Marxism-Bolshevism: Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
pt. 9. Reactions to liberalism 3: irrationalism and anti-rationalism. The moral exclusiveness of nationalism: Herder ; The elitist critique of democracy: Pareto and Michels ; Liberalism's special enemies: the crowd and its theorists ; The leader and his crowd: Sigmund Freud's Group psychology and the analysis of the ego (1921) ; Fascism, or being revolutionary without being Marxist ; Conservatism: Maurras and Oakeshot ; Thinking about thinking, and the lapse into discourses.
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Politics - history
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Electronic books.
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