The book provides a thematic examination of republican theory from the Italian Renaissance, through seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, the late- eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the experiences of the early American republic to contemporary debates. It maps out a republican ideal
Republican Theory in Political Thought: Virtuous or Virtual?
β Scribed by Bill Brugger (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 219
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-21
Early Modern Republicanism....Pages 22-48
Enlightenment Republicanism....Pages 49-78
Mechanical Republicanism: The American Case....Pages 79-117
Contemporary Republicanism in What Used to be Called the βFirst Worldβ....Pages 118-152
Prospects for Republicanism Elsewhere....Pages 153-180
Conclusion....Pages 181-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-211
β¦ Subjects
Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Intellectual Studies
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