"In recent years the political landscape has radically changed; established ideas about class, economy, nation and equality have been challenged by new politics of identity, culture, ethnicity and difference. The political theory of recognition is a response to these challenges.…
James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English …
James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This 1992 volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the Eng…
"What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and…
"What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and…
Political innovation and conceptual change
by Farr, James, Ball, Terence, Hanson, Russell L.
fromIdeas in context
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.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. His political writings cover the period from the first volume of the Encyclopedie (1751), of which he was principal editor, to the third edition of Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes (17…