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John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in
one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the
eighteenth century.
In his first essay, "Languages and Their Implications," J. G. A.
Pocock announces the emergence of the history of political thought
as a discipline apart from political philosophy. Traditionally,
"history" of political thought has meant a chronological ordering
of intellectual systems without attention to political languages;
but it is through the study of those languages and of their
changes, Pocock claims, that political thought will at last be
studied historically.
Pocock argues that the solution has already been approached by,
first, the linguistic philosophers, with their emphasis on the
importance of language study to understanding human thought, and,
second, by Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,"
with its notion of controlling intellectual paradigms. Those
paradigms within and through which the scientist organizes his
intellectual enterprise may well be seen as analogous to the worlds
of political discourse in which political problems are posed and
political solutions are proffered. Using this notion of successive
paradigms, Pocock demonstrates its effectiveness by analyzing a
wide range of subjects, from ancient Chinese philosophy to
Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Burke.
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Contemporary European politics seems to be gripped by a stifling
conformism, an uninspiring uniformity of outlook which afflicts all
the major parties. However, if there is one issue which does
divide-though with the fault-lines within just as much as between
right and left-it is the question of Europe, the future of the
Union. But, for all the heat generated by the debate between
Eurosceptics and Europhiles, and the vivid claims and counterclaims
about federalism or the fate of national sovereignty, there is
widespread public confusion about what is at issue-partly because
of the opaque nature of the Community's institutions, and partly
because much that is written on the subject is jargon or
officalese. The Question of Europe offers an antidote, by
collecting some of the liveliest and sharpest commentary on Europe,
across the full political spectrum, from leading authorities in the
study of history, economics, philosophy, culture and sociology.
Eminent German, Italian, French, Swedish and Irish writers are
included, as well as key figures from Britain and the US. Looking
paranormically at the past, present and future of integration, The
Question of Europe brings polemic and scholarship together to offer
us a new way of approaching the Union.
This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of
works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying
Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west. It makes two
general assertions: first, that this is in reality a mosaic of
narratives, written on diverse premises and never fully synthesized
with one another; and second, that these chapters assert a progress
of both barbarism and religion from east to west, leaving much
history behind as they do so. The magnitude of Barbarism and
Religion is already apparent. Barbarism: Triumph in the West
represents the culmination of a remarkable attempt to discover and
present what Gibbon was saying, what he meant by it, and why he
said it in the ways that he did, as well as an unparalleled
contribution to the historiography of Enlightened Europe.
The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essays in
British history, written by one of the world's leading historians
of political thought and published over the past three decades. The
purpose of the essays is to present British history as the history
of several nations interacting with - and sometimes seceding from -
association with an imperial state. The commentary presents this
history as that of an archipelago, situated in oceans and expanding
across them to the Antipodes. Both New Zealand history and ways of
seeing history formed in New Zealand enter into the vision, and the
aim is to present British history as oceanic and global,
complementing (and occasionally criticising) the presentation of
that history as European. Professor Pocock 's interpretation of
British history has been hugely influential in recent years, making
The Discovery of Islands a resource of immense value for historians
of Britain and indeed of the world.
In this first volume, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, John Pocock follows Gibbon through his youthful exile in Switzerland and his criticisms of the Encyclopédie and traces the growth of his historical interests down to the conception of the Decline and Fall itself.
John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in
one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the
eighteenth century.
In this volume distinguished historians and political scientists
examine political discourse during that short span of years from
the Revolution through ratification, a period of profound political
and conceptual change. The concepts of "sovereignty,"
"representation," "liberty," "virtue," "republic," "democracy"-even
"constitution" itself-were virtually recoined. Others, like
"federalism," were new inventions. Out of the vehement political
arguments and debates of the period came not only a new
Constitution but a new political vocabulary-a political idiom that
was distinctly recognizably American.
This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism
and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's
treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy
in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that
Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying belief in the
Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the
character of 'enlightenment'. Reconsidering the genesis, inception
and reception of these crucial chapters of Decline and Fall, Pocock
explores the response of Gibbon's critics, affirming that his
reputation as an unbeliever was established before his history of
the Church had been written. The magnitude of Barbarism and
Religion is already apparent. Religion: The First Triumph will be
read not just as a remarkable analysis of the making of Decline and
Fall, but also as a comment on the collision of belief and
disbelief, a subject as pertinent now as it was to Gibbon's
eighteenth-century readers.
The second volume of Barbarism and Religion explores the historiography of Enlightenment, and looks at Gibbon's intellectual relationship with writers sucah as Giannone, Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Ferguson and Adam Smith. Edward Gibbon's intellectual trajectory is both similar but at points crucially distinct from the dominant Latin "Enlightened narrative" these thinkers developed. The interaction of philosophy, erudition and narrative is central to enlightened historiography, and John Pocock again shows how the Decline and Fall is both akin to but distinct from the historiographical context within which Gibbon wrote his great work.
John Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian
of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he has created
an audience for his work which is truly global, and he has marked
the way in which the history of political thought is studied as
deeply and personally as any historian of the period. The essays in
this major new collection are selected from a lifetime of thinking
about political thought, and how we should study it in history.
What in fact does it mean to write the history of a political
society, and what kind of political thought is this? Professor
Pocock emphasises both the theory and practice of political thought
considered as action in history, and the political theory of
historiography considered as a form of political thought. Together
these essays constitute a collection that any serious student of
politics and intellectual history needs to possess.
This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism
and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's
treatment of the early Christian church. Examining this controversy
in unprecedented depth, Pocock challenges the assumption that
Gibbon wrote with the intention of destroying belief in the
Christian revelation, and questions our understanding of the
character of 'enlightenment'. Reconsidering the genesis, inception
and reception of these crucial chapters of Decline and Fall, Pocock
explores the response of Gibbon's critics, affirming that his
reputation as an unbeliever was established before his history of
the Church had been written. The magnitude of Barbarism and
Religion is already apparent. Religion: The First Triumph will be
read not just as a remarkable analysis of the making of Decline and
Fall, but also as a comment on the collision of belief and
disbelief, a subject as pertinent now as it was to Gibbon's
eighteenth-century readers.
John Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian
of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he has created
an audience for his work which is truly global, and he has marked
the way in which the history of political thought is studied as
deeply and personally as any historian of the period. The essays in
this major new collection are selected from a lifetime of thinking
about political thought, and how we should study it in history.
What in fact does it mean to write the history of a political
society, and what kind of political thought is this? Professor
Pocock emphasises both the theory and practice of political thought
considered as action in history, and the political theory of
historiography considered as a form of political thought. Together
these essays constitute a collection that any serious student of
politics and intellectual history needs to possess.
'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the
title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate
Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series
of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a
major intervention from one of the world's leading historians,
challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing
instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was
one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly
and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural
History of the American Philosophical Society. In this third volume
in the sequence, The First Decline and Fall, John Pocock offers an
historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's
great work, recounting the end of the classical civilisation Gibbon
and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed.
'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the
title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate
Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series
of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the
fourth volume in the sequence, first published in 2005, Pocock
argues that barbarism was central to the history of western
historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward
Gibbon himself. As a concept it was deeply problematic to
Enlightened historians seeking to understand their own civilised
societies in the light of exposure to newly discovered
civilisations which were, until then, beyond the reach of history
itself.
The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essays in
British history, written by one of the world's leading historians
of political thought and published over the past three decades. The
purpose of the essays is to present British history as the history
of several nations interacting with - and sometimes seceding from -
association with an imperial state. The commentary presents this
history as that of an archipelago, situated in oceans and expanding
across them to the Antipodes. Both New Zealand history and ways of
seeing history formed in New Zealand enter into the vision, and the
aim is to present British history as oceanic and global,
complementing (and occasionally criticising) the presentation of
that history as European. Professor Pocock 's interpretation of
British history has been hugely influential in recent years, making
The Discovery of Islands a resource of immense value for historians
of Britain and indeed of the world.
'Barbarism and Religion'--Edward Gibbon's own phrase--is the title of an acclaimed sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas, challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. In this third volume in the sequence, The First Decline and Fall, John Pocock offers an historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, arguing that Decline and Fall is a phenomenon of 'ancient' history. Having set out classical and Christian histories side by side, and considering Enlightened historiography as the partial escape from both, Pocock finally turns his incisive lens on Gibbon's text itself. J.G.A Pocock is a prize-winning historian of political, including historical, thought and discourse. He has been active since 1984 in founding and directing the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, for which he edited The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1993). His work has focused on the early modern period, but he is active also in the history of New Zealand, where he comes from. Other books he has written include Barbarism and Religion, I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon; II: Narratives of Civil Government (Cambridge, 1999), Virtue, Commerce and History (Cambridge, 1985), and Machiavellian Monument (Princeton, 1975).
The second volume in the acclaimed sequence of Barbarism and
Religion explores the historiography of Enlightenment. John Pocock
investigates a series of major authors who wrote Enlightened
histories on a grand narrative scale, were known to Edward Gibbon
and were important in the latter's own work: Giannone, Voltaire,
Hume, Robertson, Ferguson and Adam Smith. With his recognition that
the subject of the Decline and Fall demanded treatment of both the
patristic as well as the papal church, Edward Gibbon's intellectual
trajectory is both similar but at points crucially distinct from
the dominant Latin 'Enlightened narrative' these writers developed.
This volume is also informed by the perception that the interaction
of philosophy, erudition and narrative is central to the
development of enlightened historiography: once again John Pocock
shows how the Decline and Fall is both akin to but distinct from
the historiographical context within which Gibbon wrote his great
work.
James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a longterm process of social change that led to the decay of the old political order. Professor Pocock's lucid introduction emphasizes Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of principal events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.
A collection of essays from one of the leading figures in the study of the history of political thought. Includes essays concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the 18th century, several of which have been previously published.
This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of
works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying
Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west. It makes two
general assertions: first, that this is in reality a mosaic of
narratives, written on diverse premises and never fully synthesized
with one another; and second, that these chapters assert a progress
of both barbarism and religion from east to west, leaving much
history behind as they do so. The magnitude of Barbarism and
Religion is already apparent. Barbarism: Triumph in the West
represents the culmination of a remarkable attempt to discover and
present what Gibbon was saying, what he meant by it, and why he
said it in the ways that he did, as well as an unparalleled
contribution to the historiography of Enlightened Europe.
'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the
title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate
Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series
of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the
fourth volume in the sequence, first published in 2005, Pocock
argues that barbarism was central to the history of western
historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward
Gibbon himself. As a concept it was deeply problematic to
Enlightened historians seeking to understand their own civilised
societies in the light of exposure to newly discovered
civilisations which were, until then, beyond the reach of history
itself.
In this first volume, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, John Pocock follows Gibbon through his youthful exile in Switzerland and his criticisms of the Encyclopédie and traces the growth of his historical interests down to the conception of the Decline and Fall itself.
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