B. Brugger

Republican Theory in Political Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

The book provides a thematic examination of republican theory from the Italian Renaissance, through seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, the late- eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the experiences of the early American republic to contemporary debates. It maps out a republican ideal type according to four themes - popular sovereignty, a view ofhistory which is sensitive to systemiccorruption, an insistence on civic virtue and, following Philip Pettit, a conception of liberty as non-domination. It evaluates the attractiveness of those themes to liberals, communitarians, socialists, environmentalists and feminists and examines their relevance to inhabitants of the non-Western world. The book contributes to severaltopical debates dealing with the distinctiveness of a specifically republican tradition, the eclipse of virtue-centred thinking in the eighteenth century, the reassessment of the United States revolutionary tradition, the merits of liberalism versus communitarianism and the waves of democracy which are currently celebrated and criticized worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-41256-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781349412563
• ISBN-10: 1349412562
• Artikelnr.: 45075912

Autorenporträt

BILL BRUGGER is Professor of Politics at Flinders University. He has written and edited many books including Contemporary China and other books on Chinese politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledements Introduction Early Modern Republicanism Enlightenment Republicanism Mechanical Republicanism: The American Case Contemporary Republicanism in What Used to be called the 'First World' Prospects for Republicanism Elsewhere Conclusion Bibliography Index