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Subject(s)

• Political science—Europe—History [Browse]

Editor

• Pagden, Anthony [Browse]

Series

• Ideas in context ; 4. [More in this series]
• Ideas in context ; 4 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume studies the concept of a political 'language', of a discourse composed of shared vocabularies, idioms and rhetorical strategies, which has been widely influential on recent work in the history of political thought. The collection brings together a number of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars, on the four dominant languages in use in Europe between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. They are: the language of political Aristotelianism and the natural law; the language of classical republicanism; the language of commerce and the commercial society; and the language of a science of politics. Each author has chosen a single aspect of his or her language, sometimes the work of a single author, in one case the history of a single team, and shown how it determined the shape and development of that language, and the extent to which each language was a response to the challenge of other modes of discourse.

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Contents

• The Concept Of A Language And The Métier D'historien : Some Considerations On Practice / J.G.A. Pocock
• The History Of The Word Politicus In Early-Modern Europe / Nicolai Rubinstein
• Civil Science In The Renaissance : The Problem Of Interpretation / Donald Kelley
• Dispossessing The Barbarian : The Language Of Spanish Thomism And The Debate Over The Property Rights Of The American Indians / Anthony Pagden
• The 'Modern' Theory Of Natural Law / Richard Tuck
• Sir Thomas More's Utopia And The Language Of Renaissance Humanism / Quentin Skinner
• The Concept Of Ordre And The Language Of Classical Republicanism In Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Maurizio Viroli.
• The Language Of Seventeenth-Century Republicanism In The United Provinces : Dutch Or European? / Eco Haitsma Mulier
• The Civil Religion Of James Harrington / Mark Goldie
• Liberty, Luxury And The Pursuit Of Happiness / M.M. Goldsmith
• The Language Of Sociability And Commerce : Samuel Pufendorf And The Theoretical Foundations Of The 'Four-Stages Theory' / Istvan Hont
• 'Da Metafisico A Mercatante' : Antonio Genovesi And The Development Of A New Language Of Commerce In Eighteenth-Century Naples / Richard Bellamy
• The Criticism Of Rhetorical Historiography And The Ideal Of Scientific Method : History, Nature And Science In The Political Language Of Thomas Hobbes / Gigliola Rossini.
• Saint-Simon And The Passage From Political To Social Science / Robert Wokler
• Alexander Hamilton And The Language Of Political Science / Judith N. Shklar.

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ISBN

9780511521447 (ebook)

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