Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State: Volume Five, Modern Origins, Developments, and Perspectives against the Background of Machiavellism^LBook II: Modern Major Isms (17th-18th Centuries)

Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State: Volume Five, Modern Origins, Developments, and Perspectives against the Background of Machiavellism^LBook II: Modern Major Isms (17th-18th Centuries)

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Focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries, this volume centers around six ideological isms that the author seeks to exploit as well as deconstruct. The six isms are absolutism, constitutionalism, rationalism, empiricism, liberalism, and conservatism-all of which have long presented problematical constructs that the author seeks to de-construct. The unusually broad range of famous thinkers studied here includes Hobbes, Locke, Richelieu, Bossuet, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Smith, Burke, and various French revolutionaries. Although the focus here is historical, the contemporary import of the subject is often brought out.

Book information

ISBN: 9780275956899
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Imprint: Praeger
Pub date:
DEWEY: 328.37094
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 488
Weight: 822g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 31mm