UID:
almafu_9960119352802883
Format:
1 online resource (xxix, 350 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-139-16817-7
Content:
Many political regimes today draw such legitimacy as they have from a revolution: the destruction of an existing political elite and its replacement by a different group or groups drawn from inside the same society. A large part of the ideological dispute in world politics has come in consequence to turn on an interpretation of the character of revolutions as political and social events. It is extremely difficult to separate ideological assessments of the desirability or otherwise of what has occured in revolutions from causal explanations of why these revolutions occurred, and both major traditions in the analysis of revolutionary phenomena have been damaged by their failure to distinguish clearly between explanation and assessment. In examining eight major revolutions of the twentieth century, John Dunn helps readers to remedy this state of affairs by thinking for themselves.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of plates -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Scepticism, Job and the double principle -- Propositions and illustrations -- Curiosity and seriousness -- The problem of consolation -- Translating Job -- The double principle -- Originality and the hobbyhorse -- The old English plainness and sincerity -- Origins in accidents -- Originality and imitation -- Defective archetypes -- Associationism -- Early associationisms -- Hartley and Hume -- Language -- Doubles and reciprocals -- Associationist narratives -- Narratives and readings -- Hogarthian outlines -- The happiness of the Cervantic humour -- Laddered stockings and the story of Le Fever -- Reader-reflecting narratives -- The Shandean sublime -- Figures of the scriptural sublime -- Little circumstances and the sublime -- Figuration and fragmentation -- Parents and stones -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-37814-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-37176-7
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139168175
