The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe (Paperback, Revised)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ideas in Context
Release date:	June 1990
First published:	1987
Editors:	Anthony Pagden
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	376
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-38666-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Promotions
LSN:	0-521-38666-7
Barcode:	9780521386661

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