John Plamenatz

Gebundenes Buch

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau

Beschreibung

This volume presents lucid and insightful studies of three great figures from the history of political thought, by John Plamenatz (1912-1975), a leading political philosopher of his time. This previously unpublished work exemplifies Plamenatz's view that engagement with canonical texts can enrich and expand our capacity for political reflection.

Autor

John Plamenatz (1912-1975) was a Montenegrin political philosopher, who succeeded Isaiah Berlin as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. The best-known of his many books on the political thought is Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx (1963). Mark Philp is Fellow and Tutor in Politics of Oriel College, and has been a Lecturer in Politics at Oxford University since 1983. From 2000-2005 he was Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University. He is the author of Political Conduct (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Thomas Paine (OUP, 2007). Zbigniew Pelczynski is an emeritus fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford University. He has worked widely across the history of political thought and contemporary political theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780199645060
• ISBN-10: 019964506X
• Artikelnr.: 35109298