Ball begins by setting out his liberating view of the way we should approach 'classic' texts. He offers new readings - and reappraisals - of key authors and classic works in political theory, arguing that the importance of the great texts lies in their repeated reinterpretation …
In this book, Terence Ball injects new life into the great works of political theory. By suggesting new ways of looking at the 'classic' texts, he shows how they can offer compelling answers to the problems we face today.
Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, and Foucault: what really links these and other 'classic' political theorists? Not, argues Terence Ball, their common status as 'dead, white, European males', but instead the exciting and compelling way in which they can speak to us tod…
Ball begins by setting out his liberating view of the way we should approach 'classic' texts. He offers new readings - and reappraisals - of key authors and classic works in political theory, arguing that the importance of the great texts lies in their repeated reinterpretation …
Political innovation and conceptual change
by Farr, James, Ball, Terence, Hanson, Russell L.
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An attempt to defend the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and to show that the concepts which inform political beliefs and behaviour have historically mutable meanings which have undergone changes related to real political events.