
The History of Political Theory and Other Essays
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- Author: John Dunn, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: December 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521497848
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In this collection of essays, John Dunn brings his characteristically acute and penetrative insight to a wide range of political issues. In the first essay, 'The history of political theory', Professor Dunn argues for the importance of a historical perspective in the study of political thought. Other pieces engage with central concepts of political philosophy such as obligation, trust, freedom of conscience and property. A group of studies tackle specific contemporary problems and future dangers, for example racism and the dilemma of humanitarian intervention. The volume as a whole articulates the many dangers, but also the huge importance of, contemporary politics, and provides a representative collection of work by one of the most astute political commentators writing today.
Read more- Author is one of the most distinguished political theorists/ commentators writing today
- Collection of recent essays, several appearing in English for the first time
- Encompasses and combines historical perspectives, central issues of political theory, and contemporary problems
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- Date Published: December 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521497848
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The history of political theory
3. Contractualism
4. Political obligation
5. Trust
6. The claim to freedom of conscience: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of worship?
7. Property, justice and common good after socialism
8. The dilemma of humanitarian intervention: the executive power of the Law of Nature after God
9. Specifying and understanding racism
10. Political science, political theory, and policymaking in an interdependent world
11. Democracy: the politics of making, defending and exemplifying community: Europe 1992
12. Is there a contemporary crisis of the nation state?
13. Political and economic obstacles to rapid collective learning
14. The heritage and future of the European left.
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