Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 444 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511659980
Series Statement:
Ideas in context 24
Content:
Originally published in 1993, this collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organised on a broadly chronological basis, the topics addressed by individual scholars reflect in general the themes initiated and inspired by the work of the distinguished intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, for whom the collection is intended as a tribute. Each of the sixteen contributors have thought long and critically about Pocock's seminal contributions to the subject, and in each essay they engage with the debates he has provoked. As a fitting conclusion to the volume, Professor Pocock responds to the essays and provided his personal interpretation of the themes they invoke
Content:
George Buchanan and the anti-monarchomachs / J.H. Burns -- The ancient constitution revisited / William Klein -- Arminianism : the controversy that never was / William Lamont -- 'Scientia civilis' in classical rhetoric and in the early Hobbes / Quentin Skinner -- Parliamentary sovereignty : a very English absolutism / Michael Mendle -- The civil religion of Thomas Hobbes / Richard Tuck -- The rapture of motion : James Harrington's republicanism / Jonathan Scott -- Casuistry to Newcastle : The prince in the world of the book / Conal Condren -- Between Lambeth and Leviathan : Samuel Parker on the Church of England and political order / Gordon J. Schochet -- Priestcraft and the birth of Whiggism / Mark Goldie -- The right to resist : Whig resistance theory, 1688 to 1694 / Lois G. Schwoerer -- Placing the Two treatises / James Tully -- Shaftesbury, politeness and the politics of religion / Lawrence E. Klein
Content:
Propriety, property and prudence : David Hume and the defence of the Revolution / Nicholas Phillipson -- The rhapsody of public debt : David Hume and voluntary state bankruptcy / Istvan Hont -- Universal monarchy and the liberties of Europe : David Hume's critique of an English Whig doctrine / John Robertson -- A discourse of sovereignty : observations on the work in progress / J.G.A. Pocock
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521392426
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521201933
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521392426
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511659980
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