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A History of Modern Political Thought - The Question of Interpretation (Hardcover)
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A History of Modern Political Thought - The Question of Interpretation (Hardcover)
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How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter
simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate
past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were
composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or
should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover
not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this
book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined
and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed,
including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the
Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of
these theories of interpretation to notable modern political
theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx,
Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of
understanding modern political thought and of assessing
interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a
book which sees the history of modern political thought as more
than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection
on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It
provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought,
in which the question of interpretation matters both for
understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering
what it means to undertake political thinking.
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