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The radical attitude and modern political theory / Jason Edwards.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: vi, 208 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1403994889
  • 9781403994882
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 22
LOC classification:
  • JA71 .E37 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The Reformation and the Radical Attitude: Luther, Muntzer and Calvin -- The Politicisation of Man in the Seventeenth Century: The Levellers and Hobbes -- Enlightenment, Law and Nature: Montesquieu and Rousseau -- Conservatism and Radicalism: Burke and Paine -- Democracy and Revolution: Tocqueville and Marx -- Crisis and Decision: Lenin and Schmitt -- Conclusion: The Radical Attitude and Utopia -- Notes.
Summary: "The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of an attitude towards modernity that can be best described as radical. It emerges in discourses of politics and the state from the Sixteenth century onwards and can be discerned in many of the central texts of modern political theory, even those that are usually understood to be conservative in character. Accordingly, the attitude is best seen not as a coherent ideology or tradition but as a series of conceptual resources that continue to inform political discourse in the present."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-202) and index.

Introduction -- The Reformation and the Radical Attitude: Luther, Muntzer and Calvin -- The Politicisation of Man in the Seventeenth Century: The Levellers and Hobbes -- Enlightenment, Law and Nature: Montesquieu and Rousseau -- Conservatism and Radicalism: Burke and Paine -- Democracy and Revolution: Tocqueville and Marx -- Crisis and Decision: Lenin and Schmitt -- Conclusion: The Radical Attitude and Utopia -- Notes.

"The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of an attitude towards modernity that can be best described as radical. It emerges in discourses of politics and the state from the Sixteenth century onwards and can be discerned in many of the central texts of modern political theory, even those that are usually understood to be conservative in character. Accordingly, the attitude is best seen not as a coherent ideology or tradition but as a series of conceptual resources that continue to inform political discourse in the present."--Publisher description.

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