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The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals) - From Plato to Canetti (Paperback): J.S. McClelland The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals) - From Plato to Canetti (Paperback)
J.S. McClelland
R1,709 Discovery Miles 17 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1989, this persuasive and original by John McClelland examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians and politicians from the classical era to the twentieth century. The book examines histories of political thought and their justifications for forms of rule, highlighting the persistent and profoundly anti-democratic bias in political and social thought, analysing in particular the writings of Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Hitler, Gibbon, Carlysle, Michelet, Taine and Freud.

The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals) - From Plato to Canetti (Hardcover): J.S. McClelland The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals) - From Plato to Canetti (Hardcover)
J.S. McClelland
R5,220 Discovery Miles 52 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1989, this persuasive and original work by John McClelland examines the importance of the idea of 'the crowd' in the writings of philosophers, historians and politicians from the classical era to the twentieth century.

The book examines histories of political thought and their justifications for forms of rule, highlighting the persistent and profoundly anti-democratic bias in political and social thought, analysing in particular the writings of Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Hitler, Gibbon, Carlysle, Michelet, Taine and Freud.

A History of Western Political Thought (Hardcover): J.S. McClelland A History of Western Political Thought (Hardcover)
J.S. McClelland
R5,791 Discovery Miles 57 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days




eBook available with sample pages: PB:0415119626

27 Steps to Freedom - What Learning to Walk Again Taught me About Success in Business & Life (Paperback): Cate Pedersen 27 Steps to Freedom - What Learning to Walk Again Taught me About Success in Business & Life (Paperback)
Cate Pedersen; Photographs by Jessica Weismiller Babuik; Wendy J McClelland
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry, Part One - With Applications to Spherical Geometry (1912) (Paperback): William J.... A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry, Part One - With Applications to Spherical Geometry (1912) (Paperback)
William J. McClelland, Thomas Preston
R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry, Part One - With Applications to Spherical Geometry (1912) (Hardcover): William J.... A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry, Part One - With Applications to Spherical Geometry (1912) (Hardcover)
William J. McClelland, Thomas Preston
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
A Treatise On Spherical Trigonometry, Part One - With Applications To Spherical Geometry (1912) (Paperback): William J.... A Treatise On Spherical Trigonometry, Part One - With Applications To Spherical Geometry (1912) (Paperback)
William J. McClelland, Thomas Preston
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
A History of Western Political Thought (Paperback, Revised): J.S. McClelland A History of Western Political Thought (Paperback, Revised)
J.S. McClelland
R2,133 Discovery Miles 21 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Contents:
List of Biographies. Foreword.
Part I: The Greeks 1. Ancient Greek Political Thought 2. Socrates and Plato 3. The Guardians of the State and Justice 4. Aristotle and the Science of Politics
Part II: Romans and Roman Catholics: From Polis to Cosmopolis 5. Christian Cosmopolitan: St. Augustine's City of God 6. Christendom and its Law: St.Thomas Aquinas
Part III: Romans and Humanists: the Reinvention of Sovereignty 7. The Re-invention of Sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua 8. Machiavelli: The Prince and The Virtuous Republic
Part IV: The Theory of the Social Contract 9. The Rise and Extraordinary Persistence of the Theory of the Social Contract 10. Social Contract I: The Hobbesian Version 11. Social Contract II: The Lockean Version 12. Social Contract III: The Rousseauist Version
Part V: Enlightenment and the Development of the Modern State 13. The Modernity of the Modern State 14. The Politics of Enlightenment 15. Enlightenment and Government through Law: Montesquieu 16. The American Enlightenment: Jefferson, Crevecoeur, Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Paine 17. The Limitations of Enlightenment: Hume and Burk
Part VI: The Rise of Liberalism 18. Liberalism Comes of Age: Bentham and John Stuart Mill 19. Liberalism in Maturity and Decline: Spencer, Sumner and Green Part VII: Reactions to Liberalism 1 20. Hegel: The State and Dialectic 21. Hegel and the Hegelian Context of Marxism
Part VII: Reactions to Liberalism 2 22. Socialism Marxism and Other Socialisms 23. Social Democracy: Bernstein and Crosland 24. The Synthesis of Jacobinism and Marxism - Bolshevism: Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
Part VIII: Reactions to Liberalism 3 25. Irrationalism and Anti-Rationalism 26. The Moral Exclusiveness of Nationalism: Herder 27. The Elitist Critique of Democracy: Pareto and Michels 28. Liberalism's Special Enemies: The Crowd and its Theorists 29. The Leader and his Crowd: Sigmund Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) 30. Fascism, or Being Revolutionary without Being Marxist 31. Conservatism: Maurras and Oakeshott 32. Thinking about Thinking, and the Lapse into Discourses
Notes. Index.

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