Politics is important and obscure and difficult? Must it be so? How can anyone even begin to understand politics? In fact, why bother to try to understand it at all? This book endeavours to answer all these questions.
Kirjailija
John Dunn
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 44 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1982-2026, suosituimpien joukossa The Political Thought of John Locke. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
44 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuhaarukka 1982-2026.
This is a 10-volume set (actually comprising 21 books) on the great political thinkers. It covers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, More, Grotius, Hobbes, Locke and Hume.
In this collection of recent essays (several appearing in English for the first time), John Dunn brings his characteristically acute and penetrative insight to a wide range of political issues. In the first essay, ‘The history of political theory’, Professor Dunn argues for the importance of a historical perspective in the study of political thought. Other pieces engage with central concepts of political philosophy such as obligation, trust, freedom of conscience and property. A group of studies tackle specific contemporary problems and future dangers, for example racism and the dilemma of humanitarian intervention. The volume as a whole articulates the many dangers, but also the huge importance of, contemporary politics, and provides a representative collection of work by one of the most astute political commentators writing today.
In this collection of recent essays (several appearing in English for the first time), John Dunn brings his characteristically acute and penetrative insight to a wide range of political issues. In the first essay, ‘The history of political theory’, Professor Dunn argues for the importance of a historical perspective in the study of political thought. Other pieces engage with central concepts of political philosophy such as obligation, trust, freedom of conscience and property. A group of studies tackle specific contemporary problems and future dangers, for example racism and the dilemma of humanitarian intervention. The volume as a whole articulates the many dangers, but also the huge importance of, contemporary politics, and provides a representative collection of work by one of the most astute political commentators writing today.