Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law (Paperback, Revised)

Samuel Pufendorf is one of the most important moral and political philosophers of the seventeenth century. His theory, which builds on Grotius and Hobbes, was immediately recognized as a classic and taken up by writers as diverse as Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. Over the past twenty years there has been a renaissance of Pufendorf scholarship. On the Duty of Man and Citizen is Pufendorf's own epitome of his monumental On the Law of Nature and of Nations, and it served as a basic text in European universities throughout the Enlightenment. This edition has a lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its context, summarizes the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline of juristic political philosophy that dominated reflection on politics until Kant.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Release date:	July 1991
First published:	1991
Authors:	Samuel Pufendorf
Editors:	James Tully
Translators:	Michael Silverthorne
Dimensions:	220 x 142 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	236
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-35980-1
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Latin
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	0-521-35980-5
Barcode:	9780521359801

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