A history of modern political thought : the question of interpretation /
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Part 1 Interpretive schemes : Hegel and Marx: political culture, economy, and ideology
- Oakeshott, Collingwood, and the historical turn
- Quentin Skinner, the Cambridge School, and contextualism
- Derrida: deconstructing the canon
- Foucault: politics, history, and discourse
- Gadamer and Hermeneutics. Part 2 Interpretations of modern political thinkers : Machiavelli: modernity and the Renaissance man
- Hobbes: the politics of absolutism
- Locke: history and political thought
- Rousseau: nature and society
- Kant: morality, politics, and cosmopolitanism
- Hegel: the politics of modernity
- Karl Marx: one or many?
- Jeremy Bentham: Enlightenment politics
- John Stuart Mill: then and now
- Nietzsche: politics, power, and philosophy
- Simone de Beauvoir: the politics of sex
- Conclusion: political thought and history. Bibliography
- Index.