Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Author: Johann Gottfried Herder

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2004-03-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1603840036

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Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit, supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist.


Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Author: Johann Gottfried Herder

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781603843645

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Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit, supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called "the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist."


Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder

Author: Ioannis D. Evrigenis

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780872207158

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Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit, supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist.


Selected Political Writings

Selected Political Writings

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780872202474

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Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? "Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations", says David Wootton in his Introduction. "In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice." (And indeed, Wootton's Machiavelli literally does so when the occasion demands: Renderings of that most problematic of words, virtù, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction, no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory.


Political Philosophy: All That Matters

Political Philosophy: All That Matters

Author: Johanna Oksala

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 2013-08-30

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1444174398

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What is political philosophy? A philosophical study of political ideas such as authority, freedom, justice and democracy? An inquiry into the best form of government? An attempt to rationally justify forms of authority? Johanna Oksana asks exactly these questions as she opens this brilliant new guide to political philosophy. Rather than attempting to provide the reader with a definite answer, the book invites readers to recognize many of the issues encountered in everyday life as political, the outcome of human practices that incorporate power relations, social norms and obligations. It suggests that political philosophy should be understood as an open-ended, critical project that to some extent concerns everyone. The book employs an original structure which will be a huge help to both students and general readers seeking to understand the topic. Each chapter, which moves chronologically from antiquity to the twentieth century, focuses on selected classic texts in political philosophy, which are briefly introduced and analysed. The texts then function as a springboard for a discussion of central contemporary issues in political philosophy.


Philosophy in History

Philosophy in History

Author: Richard Rorty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984-11-08

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521273305

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Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.


Here the People Rule

Here the People Rule

Author: Edward Banfield

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1461324815

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Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in scholarly journals or in books edited by others. A few are published here for the first time. None has been taken from one of my books. A would-be reader would have to go to much trouble to find them; that is the reason for bringing them together. Collections of essays are frequently miscellanies. This one is not. Except for the final two chapters, all deal with some aspect of the American political system. Some have to do with the structure and functioning of the federal system, others with the nature of publi(}-and incidentally other-organization, and still others with the causes and supposed cures of the social problems that government is nowadays expected to solve or cope with. The two final chapters are about the relationship between economics and political science; for lack of a better term they may be methodological.


An Introduction to the Philosophy of History

An Introduction to the Philosophy of History

Author: Michael Stanford

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1998-02-04

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0631199411

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This book uncovers the wealth of philosophical problems that history presents, and encourages further thought on how these issues grow out of historical questions.