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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 November 2009
      05 June 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511582967
      9780521551915
      9780521022637
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582967
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.645kg, 300 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.455kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (47)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (47)
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    Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism. The pluralists believed that the state was simply one group among many, and could not therefore be sovereign. They also believed that groups, like individuals, might have personalities of their own. The book examines the philosophical background to political pluralist ideas with particular reference to the work of Thomas Hobbes and the German Otto von Gierke. It also traces the development of pluralist thought before, during and after the First World War. Part Three returns to Hobbes in order to see what conclusions can be drawn about the nature of his Leviathan and the nature of the state as it exists today.

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    "As a history of the implantation of ideas within a particular context, this work is exceptional. As an incisive conceptual negotiation of this tradition....this work borders on brilliance." B.J. Macdonald, Choice

    "...such thoroughness is part and parcel of the book's great value to historians of ideas in early twentieth century England." Review of Metaphysics

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