| A Textual Introduction to Social and Political Theory Contributor(s): Bellamy, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719046394 ISBN-13: 9780719046391 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1996 Annotation: This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.011 |
| LCCN: 95036976 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.11" W x 9.15" (1.24 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition's principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency in which to debate the problems facing modern societies. Each of the twelve chapters combines extracts from two (or in one case three) political philosophers on a key political concept with a commentary essay. Each chapter does more than just introduce the reader to the classics; it also explains, via the commentary essay, the key concepts of political debate, and the historical contexts which led the thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society. |