Deze uitgebreide serie volgt de evolutie van het westerse politieke denken, van de klassieke oorsprong tot de 20e eeuw. Het onderzoekt nauwgezet centrale filosofische concepten en hun historische context. Lezers krijgen diepgaande inzichten in de ideeën die politieke systemen en lopende debatten hebben gevormd. Deze collectie dient als een essentiële bron voor academici en liefhebbers van intellectuele geschiedenis.
The book delves into a rich tapestry of ideas that have evolved over more than a millennium, exploring their historical development and significance. It offers insights into the complexities and variations of these concepts, providing a comprehensive analysis of their impact on culture and thought throughout the ages.
Exploring the evolution of political philosophy in the European Enlightenment, this book delves into the key ideas and figures that shaped modern political theory. It examines the intellectual currents that influenced revolutionary thoughts on governance, individual rights, and the role of reason in society. By analyzing the contributions of prominent thinkers, the work highlights the transformative impact of Enlightenment ideas on contemporary political systems and concepts.
Beginning with Homer and ending in late antiquity with Christian and pagan reflections on divine and human order, this volume is the first general and comprehensive treatment of Rome ever to be published in English. Its international team of distinguished scholars includes historians of law, politics, culture and religion, as well as philosophers. The volume will long remain an accessible and authoritative guide to Greek and Roman thinking about government and community.
This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than one thousand years. A work of both synthesis and assessment, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought presents the results of several decades of critical scholarship in the field, and reflects in its breadth of enquiry precisely that diversity of focus that characterized the medieval sense of the "political," preoccupied with universality at some levels, and with almost minute particularity at others. Among the vital questions explored by the distinguished team of contributors are the nature of authority, of justice, of property; the problem of legitimacy, of allegiance, of resistance to the powers that be; the character and functions of law, and the role of custom in maintaining a social structure