The Pursuit of Certainty in Modern Politics ...
Author : James Minor Nickell
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Political sociology
ISBN :
Author : James Minor Nickell
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Political sociology
ISBN :
Author : Wendy James
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415107907
An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.
Author : Shirley Robin Letwin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780751202847
Author : Shirley Robin Letwin
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780865971943
By examining the thought of four seminal thinkers, Shirley Robin Letwin in The Pursuit of Certainty provides a brilliant record of the gradual change in the English-speaking peoples' understanding of "what sort of activity politics is." As Letwin writes, "the distinctive political issue since the eighteenth century has been whether government should do more or less." Nor, as many historians argue, did this issue arise because of the Industrial Revolution or "new social conditions [that] aggravated the problem of poverty" but, Letwin believes, because of the "profoundly personal reflection" of major thinkers, including Hume, Bentham, Mill, and Webb. David Hume, for example, believed that to "reach for perfection, to seek an ideal, is noble, but dangerous, and is therefore an activity that individuals or voluntary groups may pursue, but governments certainly should not." By the end of the nineteenth century, as Letwin observes, Beatrice Webb came to "equate the triumph of reason over passion with the rule of science over human life." Thus did the "pursuit of certainty" displace the traditional English understanding of the limitations of human nature--hence the necessity of limits to governmental power and programs. Consequently, in our time, "Politics was no longer one of several human activities and at that not a very noble one; it encompassed all of human life" in quest of philosophical "certainty" and social perfection. The Liberty Fund edition is a reprint of the original work published by Oxford in 1965. Shirley Robin Letwin (1924-1993) was a Professor of Political and Legal Philosophy at Harvard, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.
Author : Barbara Fuchs
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 148753549X
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.
Author : Jenny Edkins
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526119018
The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and autobiographical illustrations, the book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope.
Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192508369
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.
Author : C. Aldrovandi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137316845
This book explores Israeli Religious Zionism and US Christian Zionism by focusing on the Messianic and Millenarian drives at the basis of their political mobilization towards a 'Jewish colonization' of the occupied territories.
Author : Rodney S. Barker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415161664
A provocative and stimulating guide to political thinking in the United Kingdom since the 1880s. Spanning the development of political thought from Morris to market socialism, from communism to communitarianis, from fascism to feminism.
Author : Mark Cowling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351910345
Assembling accessible and informative essays on contemporary debates and future issues in politics, this rewarding volume focuses on political developments in UK, European and international issues, and modern theoretical debates and problems. Each essay establishes the historical context before providing a speculative analysis of possible future developments. The collection presents a range of challenging and provocative accounts that deal with some of the most delicate, complex and fundamental issues that affect people living in Western Europe in the twenty-first century.