A Reader's Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise - Hardcover

Bookman, John T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030028798 ISBN 13: 9783030028794

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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<P>MACHIAVELLI, HOBBES, AND LOCKE EACH SOUGHT A NEW FOUNDATION FOR POLITICAL ORDER. THIS BOOK SERVES AS A READER'S COMPANION TO MACHIAVELLI’S&NBSP;<I>THE PRINCE</I>, HOBBES’S&NBSP;<I>LEVIATHAN</I>, AND LOCKE’S&NBSP;<I>SECOND TREATISE</I>&NBSP;WRITTEN FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS SEEKING A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF THESE CLASSIC&NBSP;TEXTS. HOW DO THESE PHILOSOPHERS RESPOND TO PERENNIAL QUESTIONS SUCH AS WHY ANYONE IS EVER OBLIGATED TO OBEY A GOVERNMENT AND WHETHER THERE ARE ANY LIMITS TO SUCH AN OBLIGATION. IN THIS BOOK, BOOKMAN BEGINS BY SORTING OUT THE&NBSP;HERMENEUTICAL CONTROVERSY BETWEEN TEXTUALISTS AND CONTEXTUALISTS, OFFERS A CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER COMMENTARY ON THE TEXTS&NBSP;PUNCTUATED BY QUESTIONS FOR THE READER’S REFLECTION, AND FINALLY SUGGESTS A FIRMER FOUNDATION FOR A THEORY OF POLITICAL OBLIGATION THAN HOBBES’S AND LOCKE’S CONSENT THEORIES. ALSO INCLUDED ARE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS KEYED TO SELECT&NBSP;BIBLIOGRAPHIES, PROVIDING READERS WITH A WIDE-RANGING, CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE SECONDARY LITERATURE. INTENDED&NBSP;TO BE READ ALONGSIDE THE PRIMARY WORK, THE WORK IS A FULL INTELLECTUAL, CRITICAL, AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, AS WELL AS A FRESH EXAMINATION OF THREE CLASSIC TEXTS IN POLITICAL&NBSP;THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY.</P>

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“Bookman has achieved a remarkable feat: providing a readable running commentary on three key texts in the history of Western political thought.” (Terence Ball, Emeritus Professor, Political Science, Arizona State University, USA)

 

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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order. This book serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli’s The Prince, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Locke’s Second Treatise written for graduate students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of these classic texts. How do these philosophers respond to perennial questions such as why anyone is ever obligated to obey a government and whether there are any limits to such an obligation. In this book, Bookman begins by sorting out the hermeneutical controversy between textualists and contextualists, offers a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the texts punctuated by questions for the reader’s reflection, and finally suggests a firmer foundation for a theory of political obligation than Hobbes’s and Locke’s consent theories. Also included are bibliographical essays keyed to select bibliographies, providing readers with a wide-ranging, critical review of the secondary literature. Intended to be read alongside the primary work, the work is a full intellectual, critical, and bibliographical history, as well as a fresh examination of three classic texts in political theory and philosophy.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 3030028798
• ISBN 13: 9783030028794
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236