Read online: A Social History of Western

A Social History of Western Political Thought. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Ellen Meiksins Wood

A-Social-History-of.pdf
ISBN: 9781839766091 | 592 pages | 15 Mb

• A Social History of Western Political Thought
• Ellen Meiksins Wood, Ellen Meiksins Wood
• Page: 592
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781839766091
• Publisher: Verso Books

Download A Social History of Western Political Thought

Download book isbn number A Social History of Western Political Thought 9781839766091 English version

A sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon, while largely the work of members or clients of dominant classes, was shaped by complex interactions among proprietors, labourers and states. Western political theory, Wood argues, owes much of its vigour, and also many ambiguities, to these complex and often contradictory relations. In the first volume, she traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history—a significant departure not only from the standard abstract history of ideas but also from other contextual methods. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus and Sophocles, through the Roman Republic of Cicero and the Empire of St Paul and St Augustine, to the medieval world of Averroes, Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, Wood offers a rich, dynamic exploration of thinkers and ideas that have indelibly stamped our modern world. In the second volume, Wood addresses the formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, which have all been attributed to the “early modern” period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.

Liberty and Property: A Social History of - Thriftbooks
Buy a cheap copy of Liberty and Property: A Social History book by Ellen and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from the.
A History of Western Political Thought by John S. McClelland
Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most importa…
Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political
by Ellen Meiksins Meiksins Wood (Author) ; Print length. 336 pages ; Language. English ; This item: Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political 
Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought
Synopsis: In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood lays out her innovative approach to the history of political theory and traces the development of 
A Social History of Western Political Thought: Wood, Ellen
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately 

Pdf downloads:
{pdf download} In the FLO: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life by Alisa Vitti
Kusama: A Graphic Biography by Elisa Macellari on Ipad
EL INVITADO DE DRACULA EBOOK | BRAM STOKER | Descargar libro PDF EPUB
VICTUS CAT BUTXACA leer epub ALBERT SANCHEZ PIÑOL
DE LENINGRADO A ODESA leer pdf
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris: A Novel by Adriana Herrera on Ipad
Download Pdf The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
{epub download} Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
Read online: Balan Wonderworld: Maestro of Mystery, Theatre of Wonders by Square Enix, Soshi Kawasaki
Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization by Scott D. Anthony, Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud, Andy Parker on Ipad