Richard Tuck (Massachusetts Harvard University)

The Sleeping Sovereign

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the important distinction in political theory between a 'sovereign' and a 'government' state, from its first appearance in Bodin's writings in the late sixteenth century, through its seventeenth-century treatment by Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf, to the eighteenth-century response, and the presentation of 'government' in the American Constitution.

Produktdetails

• The Seeley Lectures
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781107570580
• ISBN-10: 1107570581
• Artikelnr.: 42800030

Autorenporträt

Richard Tuck is the author of Natural Rights Theories (Cambridge, 1979), Hobbes (1989), Philosophy and Government, 1572¿1651 (Cambridge, 1993), The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant (1999) and Free Riding (2008). He is the editor of standard editions of Hobbes and Grotius, and the author of many scholarly articles on the history of political thought and political philosophy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow for twenty-six years before moving to Harvard University, Massachusetts. He has been invited to give many series of lectures, including the Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford, the Benedict Lectures at Boston University, and the Seeley Lectures at the University of Cambridge. At Harvard University he has served as the Chair of the Social Studies Program since 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Jean Bodin
2. Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf
3. The eighteenth century
4. America
Conclusion
Index.