UID:
almafu_9959236495802883
Format:
1 online resource (276 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-984373-2
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0-19-025253-7
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1-283-16030-7
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9786613160300
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0-19-984377-5
Content:
The Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. For all the talk about the remoteness of ivory tower ideas from 'the real world,' it is the case that ideas do in fact have consequences. In recent US history, the careers of Henry Kissinger and Daniel Patrick Moynihan illustrate how ideas drive politics. Oftentimes the translations of ideas into action results in severe distortions of their original meaning, but the relationship between ideas and revolutionary political and social change is a constant. The accompl
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Description based upon print version of record.
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COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Introduction; 1. Plato in the Real City; 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero: Politics in a Dying Republic; 3. Justinian, Tribonian, and Irnerius: How Statesmen and Scholars Rescued Roman Law (Twice); 4. Advising the Prince: The Enigma of Machiavelli; 5. The Scholar vs. The Statesman: Thomas Hobbes and Edward Coke; 6. John Locke: The Don Heard Round the World; 7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Political Philosophy without Politics; 8. Edmund Burke: Man on a Tightrope; 9. Tocqueville the Politician; 10. Max Weber: Scholarship and Politics in the Disenchanted World
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11. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Tradition-Haunted Iconoclast12. The First Lady and the Philosopher: Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Malik, and the Human Rights Project; EPILOGUE; NOTES; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-978245-8
Language:
English
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