Political Thought and History Paperback: Essays on Theory and Method - Softcover

Pocock, J.G.A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521714060 ISBN 13: 9780521714068

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

John Pocock is arguably the most influential historian of ideas of modern times. These essays are selected from a lifetime of thinking about political thought, and how we should study it in history. Together they constitute a collection that any serious student of politics and intellectual history needs to possess.

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'Although his writing demands a great deal of concentration ... nowhere is it other than fresh, cogent and provocative. ... is usefully illustrative, and offers insights that all who aspire to the study of intellectual history (in its broadest sense) can heed.' English Historical Review

Biografía del autor:

Professor John Pocock, Honorary Fellow of St John's Cambridge, is the Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. His many seminal works on intellectual history include The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957, second edition 1987), Politics, Language and Time (1971), The Machiavellian Moment (1975), and Virtue, Commerce and History (1985). He has edited The Political Works of James Harrington (1977) and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1987), as well as the collaborative study The Varieties of British Political Thought (1995). Professor Pocock is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521714060
• ISBN 13: 9780521714068
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298