A Reader's Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise Hardback
by John T. Bookman
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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order.
This book serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli's The Prince, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Locke's Second Treatise written for graduate students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of these classic texts.
How do these philosophers respond to perennial questions such as why anyone is ever obligated to obey a government and whether there are any limits to such an obligation.
In this book, Bookman begins by sorting out the hermeneutical controversy between textualists and contextualists, offers a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the texts punctuated by questions for the reader's reflection, and finally suggests a firmer foundation for a theory of political obligation than Hobbes's and Locke's consent theories.
Also included are bibliographical essays keyed to select bibliographies, providing readers with a wide-ranging, critical review of the secondary literature.
Intended to be read alongside the primary work, the work is a full intellectual, critical, and bibliographical history, as well as a fresh examination of three classic texts in political theory and philosophy.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, IX, 224 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:10/01/2019
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- ISBN:9783030028794
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, IX, 224 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:10/01/2019
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- ISBN:9783030028794
