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Sleeping Sovereign The Invention of Modern Democracy

Tuck, Richard
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781107570580
Publisert
2016-02-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
370 gr
Høyde
217 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
06, 05, P, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
310

Forfatter
Tuck, Richard

Biografisk notat

Richard Tuck is the author of Natural Rights Theories (Cambridge, 1979), Hobbes (1989), Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (Cambridge, 1993), The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant (1999) and Free Riding (2008). He is the editor of standard editions of Hobbes and Grotius, and the author of many scholarly articles on the history of political thought and political philosophy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow for twenty-six years before moving to Harvard University, Massachusetts. He has been invited to give many series of lectures, including the Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford, the Benedict Lectures at Boston University, and the Seeley Lectures at the University of Cambridge. At Harvard University he has served as the Chair of the Social Studies Program since 2006.

Sleeping Sovereign The Invention of Modern Democracy

Tuck, Richard
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
Tuck, Richard
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
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'Richard Tuck is justly known for innovative, deeply contextual scholarship that manages to revise our ordinary ways of looking at the history of political thought. His new book does not disappoint. Indeed, I warmly commend it. ... offers the reader a commanding metaphor for rethinking how modern democracy was 'invented'.' Michael Mosher, The Review of Politics

Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy.
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An exploration of the important distinction in political theory between a 'sovereign' and a 'government' state, from its first appearance in Bodin's writings in the late sixteenth century, through its seventeenth-century treatment by Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf, to the eighteenth-century response, and the presentation of 'government' in the American Constitution.
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Preface; 1. Jean Bodin; 2. Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf; 3. The eighteenth century; 4. America; Conclusion; Index.
An examination of how the modern idea of constitutional referendums developed and how direct democracy became possible in modern states.

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'Richard Tuck is justly known for innovative, deeply contextual scholarship that manages to revise our ordinary ways of looking at the history of political thought. His new book does not disappoint. Indeed, I warmly commend it. ... offers the reader a commanding metaphor for rethinking how modern democracy was 'invented'.' Michael Mosher, The Review of Politics

Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political thought, he also provides one of the first modern histories of the constitutional referendum, and shows the importance of the United States in the history of the referendum. The book derives from the John Robert Seeley Lectures delivered by Richard Tuck at the University of Cambridge in 2012, and will appeal to students and scholars of the history of ideas, political theory and political philosophy.
Les mer
An exploration of the important distinction in political theory between a 'sovereign' and a 'government' state, from its first appearance in Bodin's writings in the late sixteenth century, through its seventeenth-century treatment by Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf, to the eighteenth-century response, and the presentation of 'government' in the American Constitution.
Les mer
Preface; 1. Jean Bodin; 2. Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf; 3. The eighteenth century; 4. America; Conclusion; Index.
An examination of how the modern idea of constitutional referendums developed and how direct democracy became possible in modern states.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781107570580
Publisert
2016-02-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
370 gr
Høyde
217 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
06, 05, P, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
310

Forfatter
Tuck, Richard

Biografisk notat

Richard Tuck is the author of Natural Rights Theories (Cambridge, 1979), Hobbes (1989), Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (Cambridge, 1993), The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant (1999) and Free Riding (2008). He is the editor of standard editions of Hobbes and Grotius, and the author of many scholarly articles on the history of political thought and political philosophy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow for twenty-six years before moving to Harvard University, Massachusetts. He has been invited to give many series of lectures, including the Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford, the Benedict Lectures at Boston University, and the Seeley Lectures at the University of Cambridge. At Harvard University he has served as the Chair of the Social Studies Program since 2006.

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