In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of
ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain
by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science of
politics'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and
ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term
'political science': in fact, as this book demonstrates, it
remained the overarching category under which many
nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve
systematic understanding of man's common life. As a result of both
the over-concentration on closed abstract systems of thought and
the intrusion of concerns which pervade much writing in the history
of political theory and of the social sciences, these attempts have
since been neglected or misrepresented. By deliberately avoiding
such approaches, this book restores the subject to its centrality
in the intellectual life and political culture of
nineteenth-century Britain.
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