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Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and
notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It
continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of
politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties.
Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual of instruction on certain
aspects of princely rule and behavior, The Prince anticipates and
complicates modern political and philosophical questions. What is
the right order of society? Can Western politics still be the model
for progress toward peace and prosperity, or does our freedom to
create our individual purposes and pursuits undermine our public
responsibilities? Are the characteristics of our politics markedly
different, for better or for worse, than the politics of earlier
eras? Machiavelli argues that there is no ideal, transcendent order
to which one can conform, and that the right order is merely the
one that has the capacity to persist over time. The Prince's
emphasis on the importance of an effective truth over any abstract
ideal marks it as one of the first works of modern political
philosophy. Machiavelli's Legacy situates Machiavelli in general
and The Prince in particular at the birth of modernity. Joining the
conversation with established Machiavelli scholars are political
theorists, Americanists, and international relations scholars,
ensuring a diversity of viewpoints and approaches. Each contributor
elucidates different features of Machiavelli's thinking, from his
rejection of classical antiquity and Christianity, to his proposed
dissolution of natural roles and hierarchies among human beings.
The essays cover topics such as Machiavelli's vision for a
heaven-sent redemptive ruler of Italy, an argument that Machiavelli
accomplished a profoundly democratic turn in political thought, and
a tough-minded liberal critique of his realistic agenda for
political life, resulting in a book that is, in effect, a spirited
conversation about Machiavelli's legacy. Contributors: Thomas E.
Cronin, David Hendrickson, Harvey Mansfield, Clifford Orwin, Arlene
Saxonhouse, Maurizio Viroli, David Wootton, Catherine Zuckert.
This volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives
reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinary interest
that Oakeshott now attracts. The essays offer a variety of
approaches to Oakeshott's thought - testament to the abiding depth,
originality, suggestiveness and complexity of his writings. The
essays include contributions from well- known Oakeshott scholars
along with ample representation from a new generation. As a
collection these essays challenge Oakeshott's reputation as merely
a 'critic of social planning'.
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Title: An oration pronounced at Lexington, Massachusetts, on the
fourth of July, A.D. 1814: being the thirty-eighth anniversary of
American independence.Author: Timothy FullerPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04686200CollectionID:
CTRG04-B107PublicationDate: 18140101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 23 p
Title: Address delivered at the eleventh anniversary of the
Massachusetts Peace Society: December 25, 1826.Author: Timothy
FullerPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04685800CollectionID:
CTRG04-B103PublicationDate: 18270101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 27 p.; 25 cm
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm18925448Attributed to Timothy Fuller. Cf. Shoemaker. A
checklist of American imprints for 1823.Boston: Printed for the
author by True and Greene, 1823. 27 p.; 23 cm.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide
had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the
Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity
of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures
would not have been as convincing as it was if not for the
existence of a theoretical diagnosis of the malady. This book
compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading
twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Hans-Georg Gadamer, F.A.
Hayek, Aurel Kolnai, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Oakeshott, Michael
Polanyi, Gilbert Ryle, Eric Voegelin, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
While each can be seen as a critic of rationalism, were they each
attacking the same thing? In what senses did their analyses
overlap, and in what senses did they differ? Clarifying these
issues, this book will provide important insights into this major
intellectual trend of the past century. By including these major
thinkers, Tradition v. Rationalism, we see that that these thinkers
believed that tradition should still have a place in the world as a
repository of wisdom. As our lives becomes increasingly dominated
by various forms of rationalisms-whether political, technological,
economic, or cultural-we need to ask ourselves whether this is the
type of world in which we want to live; and if not, how can we
critique and propose an alternative to it? The thinkers in this
book provide us a starting point on our journey towards thinking
about how we can have a more hopeful, humane, and brighter future.
Michael Oakeshott's lifelong interest in religion and its relation
to politics is made explicit in this collection of essays. It
comprises four important unpublished pieces, together with a
further six which originally appeared in remote and inaccessible
journals, and provides an illuminating complement to Oakeshott's
best-known writings. Much of the collection emanates from his early
career, and reveals not only his initial intellectual
preoccupations, but the nature of his religious outlook, the moral
convictions that governed the life he himself lived, and his sense
of what it means to live 'religiously' in the world. What the
essays disclose is a view of a moral life without fixities, but
with choices of conduct in accord with one's self-understanding.
Faith lies not in resisting but exploring life's contingencies,
seeking an imaginative response to the events that come one's way.
Oakeshott's writing is persuasive and compelling, and the essays
offer a calm and civil dissent from the dominant rationalism of our
time. In a substantial introduction, Timothy Fuller provides the
first full explanation of Oakeshott's religious ideas, setting them
within their philosophic context.He shows how, in these essays,
Oakeshott elaborated the implications of 'Experience and its
Modes', worked out his political theory as summarized in
'Rationalism in Politics', and gradually assembled his own
philosophical account of the ideal that European civilization had
made concrete in history - civil association under the rule of law
- and to which he gave definitive expression in 'On Human Conduct'.
Michael Oakeshott was born in 1901 and educated at the Universities
of Cambridge, Tubingen and Marburg. A fellow of Gonville &
Caius College, Cambridge, he was appointed to the chair of
Political Science at the London School of Economics in 1950. He
died in 1990. His publications include 'Experience and its Modes'
(1933), and edition of Hobbes's 'Leviathan' (1946), 'Rationalism in
Politics' (1962), 'On Human Conduct' (1975) and 'The Voice of
Liberal Learning' (1989). Timothy Fuller was Dean of the College,
Colorado College, and editor of 'The Voice of Liberal Learning:
Michael Oakeshott on Education'.
Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl's recent book Norms of
Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (Penn
State University Press, 2005) is being received in philosophy and
political theory as an important and original defense of
liberalism. The book offers a neo-Aristotelian ethic of human
flourishing as a basis for a liberal conception of human rights.
One of the authors' central contentions is that a key problem for
any (liberal) political philosophy is how to establish a
political/legal order which in principle does not require that any
one person or group's well-being be given structured preference
over that of any other. This companion volume, an interpretive and
critical reader, features essays from both philosophers and
political scientists, as well as an omnibus reply by Rasmussen and
Den Uyl. Norms of Liberty makes challenging arguments about key
issues, which makes a multi-disciplinary reader a valuable asset
for both students and scholars. Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl is
designed both to explicate the book's arguments and to explore
possible objections.
Literary works, through their very personal means of
characterization, reveal the direct effect of politics on
individuals in a way a political treatise cannot. The distinguished
contributors to this volume share the belief that Shakespeare is
the author who most effectively sets forth the multifarious pageant
of politics. Shakespeare's rich canon presents monarchy and
republic, tyrant and king, thinker and soldier, and Christian and
pagan. The twelve essays in Shakespeare's Political Pageant discuss
a broad range of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry from the perspective
of the political theorist. This innovative book demonstrates the
immense value of seeing Shakespeare's plays in the context of
political philosophy. It will be an important source for students
and scholars of both political science and literature.
In this carefully reasoned work, discovered after Michael
Oakeshott's death in 1990 and here published for the first time,
the preeminent political philosopher describes the fundamental
dichotomy that has divided discussion of the role of government in
Europe since the Renaissance. Oakeshott exposes the weaknesses of
each opposing position and proposes a middle ground, incorporating
some scepticism and some faith. By general consensus, Oakeshott is
the most striking and original British political thinker of the
century...Anyone interested in the nature of politics and
government will find this book of interest, and many will want to
direct their senior students to it as an accessible introduction to
Oakeshott's thought.-William Christian, University of Guelph,
Perspectives on Political Science The Politics of Faith and the
Politics of Scepticism is concerned to trace the deepest and most
permanent features of the modern European political landscape over
the last five hundred years, and this it does in an original,
insightful, and frequently eloquent manner. We are fortunate that
the book has finally seen the light of day.-Paul Franco, Bowdoin
College, Political Theory We are grateful to the editor Tim Fuller
for making available this little gem that combines philosophical
insight and historical investigation in the exposure of the two
'styles' of modern European politics, without the elaborate prose
to which Oakeshott has accustomed his readers: the absence of the
typical flamboyant style that characterizes Oakeshott's published
works, enables us to grasp his line of thought in the making and
renders his arguments crystal clear...A sublime mememto.-Giovanni
Giorgini, Political Studies
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