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The Persistence of Party - Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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The Persistence of Party - Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Ideas in Context
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Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea
of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of
modern, representative politics were trialled? From Bolingbroke to
Burke, political thinkers regarded party as a fundamental concept
of politics, especially in the parliamentary system of Great
Britain. The paradox of party was best formulated by David Hume:
while parties often threatened the total dissolution of the
government, they were also the source of life and vigour in modern
politics. In the eighteenth century, party was usually understood
as a set of flexible and evolving principles, associated with names
and traditions, which categorised and managed political actors,
voters, and commentators. Max Skjoensberg thus demonstrates that
the idea of party as ideological unity is not purely a nineteenth-
or twentieth-century phenomenon but can be traced to the eighteenth
century.
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