Tony Burns is professor of political theory in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, and director of its Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ).

In this second volume on the politics of recognition in social institutions, Tony Burns provides a masterful assessment of the ideas of thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is an outstanding contribution to the history of political thought, drawing our gaze away from a narrow focus on the state to those institutions in civil society, which are often so decisive in policy-making. I highly recommend this book!

• IntroductionPart One: The Age of EnlightenmentChapter One: Seventeenth Century EnglandChapter Two: Seventeenth Century GermanyChapter Three: Eighteenth Century FrancePart Two: The French RevolutionChapter Four: The French RevolutionConclusionBibliography

Tony Burns is professor of political theory in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, and director of its Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ).

In this second volume on the politics of recognition in social institutions, Tony Burns provides a masterful assessment of the ideas of thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is an outstanding contribution to the history of political thought, drawing our gaze away from a narrow focus on the state to those institutions in civil society, which are often so decisive in policy-making. I highly recommend this book!

• IntroductionPart One: The Age of EnlightenmentChapter One: Seventeenth Century EnglandChapter Two: Seventeenth Century GermanyChapter Three: Eighteenth Century FrancePart Two: The French RevolutionChapter Four: The French RevolutionConclusionBibliography

Tony Burns is professor of political theory in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, and director of its Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ).

In this second volume on the politics of recognition in social institutions, Tony Burns provides a masterful assessment of the ideas of thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is an outstanding contribution to the history of political thought, drawing our gaze away from a narrow focus on the state to those institutions in civil society, which are often so decisive in policy-making. I highly recommend this book!

• IntroductionPart One: The Age of EnlightenmentChapter One: Seventeenth Century EnglandChapter Two: Seventeenth Century GermanyChapter Three: Eighteenth Century FrancePart Two: The French RevolutionChapter Four: The French RevolutionConclusionBibliography