1997, ISBN: 0198206836

[EAN: 9780198206835], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], Hardcover. The English civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century produced two political thinkers of genius: Thomas Ho… More...

[EAN: 9780198206835], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], Hardcover. The English civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century produced two political thinkers of genius: Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington. They are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions, Hobbes of absolutism, Harrington of republicanism. Yet behind their disagreements, argues Arihiro Fukuda, there lay a common perspective. For both writers, the primary aim was the restoration of peace and order to a divided land. Both men saw the conventional thinking of the time as unequal to that task. Their greatest works -- Hobbes's Leviathan of 1651, Harrington's Oceana of 1656 -- proposed the reconstruction of the English polity on novel bases. It was not over the principle of sovereignty that the two men differed. Fukuda shows Harrington to have been, no less than Hobbes, a theorist of absolute sovereignty. But where Hobbes repudiated the mixed governments of classical antiquity, Harrington's study of them convinced him that mixed government, far from being the enemy of absolute sovereignty, was its essential foundation. Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington were two mid-17th century political thinkers who are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions. This book rewrites the common view, arguing that behind their disagreements there lay a common perspective on the subject of sovereignty. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability., Books<

ISBN: 9780198206835

The English civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century produced two political thinkers of genius: Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington. They are known today as spokesmen of opposite position… More...

The English civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century produced two political thinkers of genius: Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington. They are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions, Hobbes of absolutism, Harrington of republicanism. Yet behind their disagreements, argues ArihiroFukuda, there lay a common perspective. For both writers, the primary aim was the restoration of peace and order to a divided land. Both men saw the conventional thinking of the time as unequal to that task. Their greatest works - Hobbes''s Leviathan of 1651, Harrington''s Oceana of 1656 - proposedthe reconstruction of the English polity on novel bases. It was not over the principle of sovereignty that the two men differed. Fukuda shows Harrington to have been, no less than Hobbes, a theorist of absolute sovereignty. But where Hobbes repudiated the mixed governments of classical antiquity, Harrington''s study of them convinced him that mixed government, far from being the enemy of absolute sovereignty, was its essential foundation. | Sovereignty and the Sword by Arihiro Fukuda Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History > United Kingdom History P10103, Arihiro Fukuda<

1998, ISBN: 9780198206835

OXFORD UNIV PR, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: New, 192 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-01-08T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780198206835, 0.86 kg, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorie… More...

OXFORD UNIV PR, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: New, 192 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-01-08T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780198206835, 0.86 kg, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorien, Bücher, Allgemein, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Großbritannien, OXFORD UNIV PR, 1998<

1998, ISBN: 9780198206835

OXFORD UNIV PR, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: New, 192 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-01-08T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780198206835, 0.86 kg, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorie… More...

OXFORD UNIV PR, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: New, 192 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-01-08T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780198206835, 0.86 kg, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorien, Bücher, Allgemein, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Großbritannien, OXFORD UNIV PR, 1998<

1997, ISBN: 9780198206835

Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Clarendon Press], Clarendon Press, 1997