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Freedom and Independence
A Study of the Political Ideas of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
Häftad, 2010
455 kr
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Originally published in 1976, this book was written specifically to guide students of political theory who want to understand Hegel's political ideas as they appear in The Phenomenology of Mind. Professor Shklar's commentary uses plain language and English translations of references wherever …
Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'
Av Karl Marx
Häftad, 1977
347 kr
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This book is a complete translation of Marx's critical commentary on paragraphs 261-313 of Hegel's major work in political theory. In this text Marx subjects Hegel's doctrine on the internal constitution of the state to a lengthy analysis. It was Marx's first attempt to expose and criticize Hegel's …
Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
Av Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, D. Forbes
Inbunden, 1975
1329 kr
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An English translation of Hegel's introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard German edition by Johannes Hoffmeister, first published in 1955. The previous English translation, by J. Sibree, first appeared in 1857 and was based on the defective German …
The Impact of Hitler
British Politics and British Policy 1933-1940
Häftad, 2005
720 kr
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In his book, Mr Cowling describes the relationship between British party politics and the conduct of British foreign policy between Hitler's arrival in office in 1933 and Chamberlain's resignation in May 1940. He sets British policy in the context of European, Imperial, League, national and …
The Limits of State Action
Häftad, 2008
357 kr
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This text is important both as one of the most interesting contributions to the liberalism of the German Enlightenment, and as the most significant source for the ideas which John Stuart Mill popularized in his essay On Liberty. Humboldt's concern is to define the criteria by which the permissible …
The Impact of Labour 1920-1924
The Beginning of Modern British Politics
Häftad, 2005
885 kr
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Modern British politics begins with the Labour victory at the Spen Valley by-election in early 1920. In the next four years, the challenge presented by its arrival as a major electoral force enabled the Conservative leaders to destroy the Coalition, the Liberal Party, and Lloyd George, to triumph …
1867 Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution
The Passing of the Second Reform Bill
Häftad, 2005
569 kr
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The passage of the Reform Bill of 1867 is one of the major problems in nineteenth-century British history. Mr Cowling provides a full-scale explanation, based on a wide range of archive material, including four major manuscript collections not previously used. Mr Cowling pays equal attention to the …
The Liberal Mind 1914-29
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This study is an exercise in the history of political perception and opinion. It broke new ground in considering the decline of Liberalism through the eyes of Liberals themselves. By concentrating on what Liberal politicians said to one another and to their audience (public and private) a picture …
Lord Salisbury on Politics
A selection from his articles in the Quarterly Review, 1860-1883
Av Paul Smith
Häftad, 2007
667 kr
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Leader of the Conservative party for seventeen years and prime minister for fourteen, the third Marquis of Salisbury was one of the most successful political practitioners of modern times, as well as a major international statesman. Yet he was also a prolific and pungent writer on politics. The …
The Politics of Reform 1884
Av Andrew Jones
Häftad, 2008
639 kr
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Gladstone's second ministry was one of failure and frustration. Even Liberal apologists and the party faithful could find little more than the Reform Act to offset the record of disasters abroad or the disruption of Irishmen at home. For some it was sufficient, and 1884 was a landmark comparable to …
Texts Concerning the Revolt of the Netherlands
Av E. H. Kossman, A. F. Mellink
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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During the revolt of the Netherlands, 'rebels' developed for the first time in modern history political philosophies that had a decisive impact on political reality, influenced the actual course of events, led in fact to the creation of a new state. This was a form of theorizing from sheer …
Lloyd George's Secretariat
Av John Turner
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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When Lloyd George became Prime Minister during the First World War he appointed a private secretariat to help him run the complex machinery of wartime government. This book, drawing extensively on private and public archives, describes the work of that Secretariat during its two years of existence …
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx
Häftad, 1970
439 kr
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Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the 'young' Marx, who was considered to be a humanist thinker, and the 'older' Marx, who was held to be a determinist with little …
Hegel's Theory of the Modern State
Häftad, 1974
439 kr
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This study in English of Hegel's political philosophy presents an overall view of the development of Hegel's political thinking. The author has drawn on Hegel's philosophical works, his political tracts and his personal correspondence. Professor Avineri shows that although Hegel is primarily …
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric
A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics
Av John Zvesper
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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This book analyses the origins of modern party politics in America. Dr Zvesper argues that the partisan conflict between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s was not merely an interesting historical sequel to the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution, but was a confrontation …
De Republica Anglorum
By Sir Thomas Smith
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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De Republica Anglorum was written by Sir Thomas Smith in 1562-5 when he was Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to France. His avowed intention was to describe English social institutions, judicial system and governmental procedures for the benefit of foreigners, explaining in what way the English system …
Resistance and Compromise
The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics
Av Peter Holmes
Häftad, 2009
601 kr
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The plight of Catholics in Elizabethan England has long attracted the interest of historians and it has long been appreciated that the key to understanding their position lies partly in the voluminous polemical literature which they published. Nearly three hundred tracts were printed in English and …
Sister Peg
A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume
Av David R. Raynor, David R. Raynor
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Scholars have known for some years that in 1760 Hume write a humorous satire against William Pitt the Elder. Mr Raynor argues that this hitherto unlocated work is Sister Peg, an anonymous publication which has been traditionally ascribed to Adam Ferguson. This witty and occasionally malicious …
Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolutist Theory
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 polarised French constitutional ideas. Appearing on one side was a radicalised version of the French constitution. On the other side was the theory of royal absolutism systematically developed by Bodin. The central thesis of this book is that Bodin's …
A Critique of Freedom and Equality
Av John Charvet
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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This book is about the grounds of ethical life, or the nature and basis of our ethical obligations. It contains an original account of these grounds and shows how this understanding requires specific forms of social and political life. Charvet considers the ideas of the freedom and equality of men …
A Machiavellian Treatise
Av Stephen Gardiner, Peter S. Donaldson
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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In this work, which has survived only in manuscript form and in Italian, Gardiner analyses the great dynastic changes in England's past in order to provide Phillip II with a guide to ruling England and establishing a Catholic dynasty. He adapts historical example to practical political purposes …
Vladimir Akimov on the Dilemmas of Russian Marxism 1895-1903
The Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. A Short History of the Social Democratic Movement in Russia
Häftad, 2009
667 kr
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Vladimir Akimov was the leading spokesman for the 'Economists' in Russia in the early twentieth century. This group of Marxists rebelled in 1898 against Plekkanov, causing within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party a schism which preceded the major split between the Bolsheviks and the …
The Social Problem in the Philosophy of Rousseau
Av John Charvet
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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This is a critical study of the political and social ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Charvet analyses Rousseau's arguments in his three main works, The Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Emile, and The Social Contract. The aim is to show how Rousseau's ideas are interrelated and how their …
Selected Writings of August Cieszkowski
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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August Cieszkowski (1814-1894) was a philosopher, economist, social reformer and political activist. As early as 1838 he formulated a daring critique of Hegel, which culminated in the notion of praxis and marked the beginning of the radicalization of the Hegelian school. Throughout the 1840s he …
J. G. Herder on Social and Political Culture
Av J. G. Herder, F. M. Barnard
Häftad, 2010
605 kr
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The texts collected in this volume, which was originally published in 1969, contain Herder's most original and stimulating ideas on politics, history and language. They had for the most part not been previously available in English. In his introduction, Professor Barnard analyses the basic premises …
Idealism, Politics and History
Sources of Hegelian Thought
Häftad, 2010
667 kr
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In Idealism, Politics and History, Mr Kelly provides a wide-ranging but careful scholarly analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period: intellectual and moral perceptions of history, and the patterns of political systems. He argues that a close exploration of the …
Social Science and the Ignoble Savage
Häftad, 2011
422 kr
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This 1976 book is concerned with the emergence, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, of a new theory of socio-economic development, based on the idea that the key factor in the developmental process was the way in which men made their living. Professor Meek traces the prehistory of the …
Francogallia
Av François Hotman, Ralph E. Giesey
Häftad, 2010
846 kr
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For at least two centuries after its first appearance in 1573 Hotman's Francogallia influenced the way in which men regarded the European past and appraised the validity of political institutions. The intricate collation of the variorum Latin readings by Professor Giesey here demonstrates that …
Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics
A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind on Universal History Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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A. R. J. Turgot (1727-81), one of the greatest thinkers of the century of the Enlightenment, is known to political historians as a pioneer of the doctrine of universal progress, which he first put forward when a student at the Sorbonne in a lecture on The Successive Advances of the Human Mind. He …
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Av James Fitzjames Stephen, R. J. White
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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R. J. White's edition, which was originally published in 1967, made Fitzjames Stephen's classic available for the first time since 1914. The editor made use of the 1874 second edition which included Stephen's notes in reply to his original critics. Stephen's work is written as a systematic …
