A Reader’s Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise [[electronic resource] /] / by John T. Bookman
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Bookman John T
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A Reader’s Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise [[electronic resource] /] / by John T. Bookman
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 320.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political theory |
| Political philosophy | |
| Democracy | |
| Political Theory | |
| Political Philosophy | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction: Historical Context and Textual Interpretation -- 2. The Prince -- 3. Leviathan -- 4. Second Treatise -- 5. A Critique. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order. This book serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli’s The Prince, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Locke’s Second Treatise written for graduate students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of these classic texts. How do these philosophers respond to perennial questions such as why anyone is ever obligated to obey a government and whether there are any limits to such an obligation. In this book, Bookman begins by sorting out the hermeneutical controversy between textualists and contextualists, offers a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the texts punctuated by questions for the reader’s reflection, and finally suggests a firmer foundation for a theory of political obligation than Hobbes’s and Locke’s consent theories. Also included are bibliographical essays keyed to select bibliographies, providing readers with a wide-ranging, critical review of the secondary literature. Intended to be read alongside the primary work, the work is a full intellectual, critical, and bibliographical history, as well as a fresh examination of three classic texts in political theory and philosophy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Reader’s Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise |
| ISBN: | 3-030-02880-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910338054203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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