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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2008
      31 August 2006
      ISBN:
      9781139055413
      9780521374224
      9781316630280
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521374224
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.419kg, 936 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.33kg, 936 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of Political Thought
      Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Political Thought
    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
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    This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of western political thought during the European Enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. Every major theme in eighteenth-century political thought is covered in a series of essays at once scholarly and accessible, and the essays are complemented by extensive guides for further reading, and brief biographical notes of the major characters in the text, including Rousseau, Montesquieu and David Hume. Of interest and relevance to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels from beginning undergraduate upwards, this volume chronicles one of the most exciting and rewarding of all periods in the development of western thinking about politics, man (and increasingly woman), and society.

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    'The six volume Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought is the triumphant embodiment of a collective effort spanning three generations. The scholarly standard is high; the array of volumes gives an impression of careful, massive and reassuring permanence.'

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    '… a definitive resource to anyone wishing to achieve a closer familiarity with these episodes in Enlightenment thought, or who wants to reconnect present philosophical outlooks with their historical beginnings.'

    Source: British Journal for the History of Philosophy

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