Politics, language, and time ; essays on political thought and history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pocock, J. G. A. (John Greville Agard), 1924-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atheneum, 1971.
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Languages and their implications: the transformation of the study of political thought
  • Ritual, language, power: an essay on the apparent political meanings of ancient Chinese philosophy
  • Civic humanism and its role in Anglo-American thought
  • Machiavelli, Harrington and English political ideologies in the eighteenth century
  • Time, history and eschatology in the thought of Thomas Hobbes
  • Burke and the ancient constitution: a problem in the history of ideas
  • Time, institutions and action: an essay on traditions and their understanding
  • On the non-revolutionary character of paradigms: a self-criticism and afterpiece.