The Sleeping Sovereign
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The Sleeping Sovereign
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Author : Richard Tuck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-18
The Sleeping Sovereign written by Richard Tuck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-18 with History categories.
An examination of how the modern idea of constitutional referendums developed and how direct democracy became possible in modern states.
Sovereignty In Action
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Author : Bas Leijssenaar
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-18
Sovereignty In Action written by Bas Leijssenaar and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-18 with History categories.
Sovereignty, originally the figure of 'sovereign', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.
Potentia
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Author : Sandra Leonie Field
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
Potentia written by Sandra Leonie Field and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Philosophy categories.
"This book offers a detailed study of the political philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Benedict de Spinoza, focussing on their concept of power as potentia, concrete power, rather than power as potestas, authorised power. The focus on power as potentia generates a new conception of popular power. Radical democrats-whether drawing on Hobbes's 'sleeping sovereign' or on Spinoza's 'multitude'-understand popular power as something that transcends ordinary institutional politics, as for instance popular plebsites or mass movements. However, the book argues that these understandings reflect a residual scholasticism which Hobbes and Spinoza ultimately repudiate. Instead, on the book's revisionist conception, a political phenomenon should be said to express popular power when it is both popular (it eliminates oligarchy and encompasses the whole polity), and also powerful (it robustly determines political and social outcomes). Two possible institutional forms that this popular power might take are distinguished: Hobbesian repressive egalitarianism, or Spinozist civic strengthening. But despite divergent institutional proposals, the book argues that both Hobbes and Spinoza share the conviction that there is nothing spontaneously egalitarian or good about human collective existence. From this point of view, the book accuses radical democrats of pernicious romanticism; the slow, meticulous work of organizational design and maintenance is the true centre of popular power"--
Popular Sovereignty In Historical Perspective
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Author : Richard Bourke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-24
Popular Sovereignty In Historical Perspective written by Richard Bourke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-24 with History categories.
The first collaborative volume to explore popular sovereignty, a pivotal concept in the history of political thought.
Philosophy And Government 1572 1651
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Author : Richard Tuck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-03-18
Philosophy And Government 1572 1651 written by Richard Tuck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-18 with History categories.
Major new study of European political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Sovereignty In Fragments
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Author : Hent Kalmo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Sovereignty In Fragments written by Hent Kalmo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Political Science categories.
The political make-up of the contemporary world changes with such rapidity that few attempts have been made to consider with adequate care, the nature and value of the concept of sovereignty. What exactly is meant when one speaks about the acquisition, preservation, infringement or loss of sovereignty? This book revisits the assumptions underlying the applications of this fundamental category, as well as studying the political discourses in which it has been embedded. Bringing together historians, constitutional lawyers, political philosophers and experts in international relations, Sovereignty in Fragments seeks to dispel the illusion that there is a unitary concept of sovereignty of which one could offer a clear definition. This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of international relations, international law and the history of political thought.
Natural Rights Theories
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Author : Richard Tuck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1979
Natural Rights Theories written by Richard Tuck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.
Rethinking The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought
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Author : Annabel Brett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-12-07
Rethinking The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought written by Annabel Brett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-07 with Political Science categories.
Quentin Skinner's classic study The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published by Cambridge in 1978. This was the first of a series of outstanding publications that have changed forever the way the history of political thought is taught and practised. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought looks afresh at the impact of the original work, asks why it still matters, and considers a number of significant agendas that it still inspires. A very distinguished international team of contributors has been assembled, including John Pocock, Richard Tuck and David Armitage, and the result is an unusually powerful and cohesive contribution to the history of ideas, of interest to large numbers of students of early modern history and political thought. In conclusion, Skinner replies to each chapter and presents his own thoughts on the latest trends and the future direction of the history of political thought.
Thinking With Rousseau
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Author : Helena Rosenblatt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-16
Thinking With Rousseau written by Helena Rosenblatt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-16 with Philosophy categories.
Rousseau's relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of 'conversations' between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'.
Rousseau And Hobbes
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Author : Robin Douglass
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Rousseau And Hobbes written by Robin Douglass and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau's critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau sought to expose that much modern natural law and doux commerce theory was, despite its protestations to the contrary, indebted to a Hobbesian account of human nature and the origins of society. Throughout the book Douglass explores the reasons why Rousseau both followed and departed from Hobbes in different places, while resisting the temptation to present him as either a straightforwardly Hobbesian or anti-Hobbesian thinker. On the one hand, Douglass reveals the extent to which Rousseau was occupied with problems of a fundamentally Hobbesian nature and the importance, to both thinkers, of appealing to the citizens' passions in order to secure political unity. On the other hand, Douglass argues that certain ideas at the heart of Rousseau's philosophy—free will and the natural goodness of man—were set out to distance him from positions associated with Hobbes. Douglass advances an original interpretation of Rousseau's political philosophy, emerging from this encounter with Hobbesian ideas, which focuses on the interrelated themes of nature, free will, and the passions. Douglass distances his interpretation from those who have read Rousseau as a proto-Kantian and instead argues that his vision of a well-ordered republic was based on cultivating man's naturally good passions to render the life of the virtuous citizen in accordance with nature.