Man's Quest for Political Knowledge

Man's Quest for Political Knowledge
Author: William Anderson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1964-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 145291074X

Man's Quest for Political Knowledge was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Considering the importance of political science as an academic subject in our time, it is surprising that more attention has not been given, until now, to the history of political study and teaching. As Professor Anderson's book makes clear, an understanding of this history throws light on questions significantly related to basic problems of contemporary political science. By placing in their historical context pertinent developments in ancient times, Professor Anderson shows how the study and teaching of politics may flourish under certain conditions and falter or fail under others. Throughout the book he demonstrates the truth of what Aristotle said about the study of politics: "In this subject as in others the best method of investigation is to study things in the process of development from the beginning." In early chapters the author examines three literate societies of the ancient Near East—Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel. He then discusses, in the major section of the book, the accomplishments of the Greeks, who, with their many self-governing city-states and their secular attitude toward politics, opened up the study of politics in a realistic way. Here he gives Aristotle the most prominent role and finds Plato less important than most scholars might expect. Finally, he traces the decline of the political study and teaching in the Hellenistic period and in the time of the Roman Empire. The volume will be of particular interest not only to political scientists but to historians, philosophers, and classical scholars.

Man's Quest for Political Knowledge

Man's Quest for Political Knowledge
Author: William Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1964
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Considering the importance of political science as an academic subject in our time, it is surprising that more attention has not been given, until now, to the history of political study and teaching. As Professor Anderson?s book makes clear, an understand.

The Minnesota Commission of Administration and Finance, 1925-1939

The Minnesota Commission of Administration and Finance, 1925-1939
Author: Lloyd Milton Short
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 1942-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0816603251

The Minnesota Commission of Administration and Finance, 1925-1939 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Human Security and the Chinese State

Human Security and the Chinese State
Author: Robert Bedeski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2007-03-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134125968

Offering a fresh and unique approach to surveying the historical transformations of the Chinese state, Human Security and the Chinese State focuses on human security in contrast with the twenty-first century obsession with national security. Building upon Hobbes' Leviathan, Robert Bedeski demonstrates how the sovereignty of the state reflects primary human concerns of survival, indeed, that fundamental purpose of the state is the preservation of the life of its citizens. Combining political science theory with historical literary, cinematic and sociological materials and ideas, Bedeski has produced a truly original approach to the last two thousand years of Chinese political history, explaining the longevity of the imperial Confucian state and locating the dilemma of modern China in its incomplete sovereignty.

Intl Biblio Pol SC 1965

Intl Biblio Pol SC 1965
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1966
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780422802208

First published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Terms of Order

The Terms of Order
Author: Cedric J. Robinson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1469628228

Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of leadership as a basis for describing and prescribing social order. Using a variety of critical approaches in his analysis, Robinson synthesizes elements of psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, classical and neoclassical political philosophy, and cultural anthropology in order to argue that Western thought on leadership is mythological rather than rational. He then presents examples of historically developed "stateless" societies with social organizations that suggest conceptual alternatives to the ways political order has been conceived in the West. Examining Western thought from the vantage point of a people only marginally integrated into Western institutions and intellectual traditions, Robinson's perspective radically critiques fundamental ideas of leadership and order.

Princeton Readings in Political Thought

Princeton Readings in Political Thought
Author: Mitchell Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1400889790

A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and engaging anthologies of Western political thinking, one that spans from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In addition to the majority of the pieces that appeared in the original edition, this new edition features exciting new selections from more recent thinkers who address vital contemporary issues, including identity, cosmopolitanism, global justice, and populism. Organized chronologically, the anthology brings together a fascinating array of writings--including essays, book excerpts, speeches, and other documents—that have indelibly shaped how politics and society are understood. Each chronological section and thinker is presented with a brief, lucid introduction, making this a valuable reference as well as reader. A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology of political thought Features a wide range of thinkers, including Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, Christine de Pizan, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Swift, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Jefferson, Burke, Olympes de Gouges, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Hegel, Bentham, Mill, de Tocqueville, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Marx, Nietzsche, Lenin, John Dewey, Gaetano Mosca, Roberto Michels, Weber, Emma Goldman, Freud, Einstein, Mussolini, Arendt, Hayek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, T. H. Marshall, Orwell, Leo Strauss, de Beauvoir, Fanon, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Havel, Fukuyama, Mitchell Cohen, Habermas, Foucault, Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, Iris Marion Young, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Amartya Sen, and Jan-Werner Müller Includes brief introductions for each thinker

Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850

Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850
Author: Daniel O’Quinn
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487500327

Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.

ABA Journal

ABA Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1965-12
Genre:
ISBN:

The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.