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Subject(s)

• Political science—History—16th century [Browse]
• Political science—History—17th century [Browse]

Series

• Ideas in context ; 26. [More in this series]
• Ideas in context ; 26 [More in this series]

Summary note

Philosophy and Government is a major new contribution to our understanding of European political theory which will challenge the perspectives in which political thought is understood. Framed as a general account of the period between 1572 and 1651 it charts the formation of a distinctively modern political vocabulary, based upon arguments of political necessity and raison d'etat in the work of the major theorists. Whilst Dr Tuck pays detailed attention to Montaigne, Grotius, Hobbes and the theorists of the English Revolution, he also reconsiders the origins of their conceptual vocabulary in humanist thought - particularly scepticism and stoicism - and its development and appropriation during the revolutions in Holland and France. This book will be welcomed by all historians of political thought and those interested in the development of the idea of the state.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• The Renaissance background
• Scepticism, Stoicism and raison d'etat
• The spread of the new humanism
• The alternatives
• Hugo Grotius
• The English Revolution
• Thomas Hobbes.

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Other title(s)

Philosophy & Government 1572-1651

ISBN

• 1-139-24020-X
• 0-511-55863-5

Hdl

• 2027/heb32217

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