Overview
A History of Modern Political Thought analyzes the ways of interpreting modern political thought and interpretations of particular modern political thinkers. It analyses prominent schemes of interpretation such as deconstruction, hermeneutics and contextualism and provides a critical reading of how particular thinkers including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Rousseau, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche, and Beauvoir are interpreted in the light of these schemes. The book addresses the question of why there are so many reinterpretations of political thinkers and how we can understand past thinkers. It concludes by developing an interpretive pluralism which recognises the merits of several schemes of interpretation, while furnishing a critical overview which maintains a dialectical perspective that provides an integral overview of the subject.
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Author: Gary Browning (Professor of Political Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Oxford Brookes University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.652kg
ISBN: 9780199682294
ISBN 10: 0199682291
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 20 October 2016
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Format: Paperback
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Table of Contents
1: Introduction PART ONE: INTERPRETIVE SCHEMES 2: Hegel and Marx: Political Culture, Economy, and Ideology 3: Oakeshott, Collingwood, and the Historical Turn 4: Quentin Skinner, the Cambridge School, and Contextualism 5: Derrida: Deconstructing the Canon 6: Foucault: Politics, History, and Discourse 7: Gadamer and Hermeneutics PART TWO: INTERPRETATIONS OF MODERN POLITICAL THINKERS 8: Machiavelli: Modernity and the Renaissance Man 9: Hobbes and the Politics of Absolutism 10: Locke: History and Political Thought 11: Rousseau: Nature and Society 12: Kant: Morality, Politics, and Cosmopolitanism 13: Hegel and the Politics of Modernity 14: Karl Marx: One or Many 15: Jeremy Bentham: Enlightenment Politics 16: John Stuart Mill: Then and Now 17: Nietzsche: Politics, Power, and Philosophy 18: Beauvoir and the Politics of Sex 19: Conclusion: Political Thought and History
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This densely layered and intricate study combines modes of interpreting political thought with discussion of major political thinkers from Machiavelli through J. S. Mill and Nietzsche... Highly recommended. CHOICE
-This densely layered and intricate study combines modes of interpreting political thought with discussion of major political thinkers from Machiavelli through J. S. Mill and Nietzsche...Highly recommended.- -- CHOICE
This densely layered and intricate study combines modes of interpreting political thought with discussion of major political thinkers from Machiavelli through J. S. Mill and Nietzsche... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
Author Information
Gary Browning is Professor of Political Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has served on the Executive of the Political Studies Association and is a member of the Council of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. He has published a number of books in political thought and related fields, such as Plato and Hegel: Two Modes of Philosophising about Politics (Routledge, 2012), Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists (co-edited with R. Prokhovnik and M. Dimova- Cookson, Palgrave, 2012), and Global Theory from Kant to Hardt and Negri (Palgrave, 2011).
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