Noble Science and Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History - Brossura

Collini, Stefan

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ISBN 10: 0521277701 ISBN 13: 9780521277709

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'.

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Descrizione del libro

In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science of politics'.

Contenuti

1. The governing science: things political and the intellectual historian; 2. The system of the North: Dugald Stewart and his pupils; 3. Higher maxims: happiness versus wealth in Malthus and Ricardo; 4. The cause of good government: Philosophic Whigs versus Philosophic Radicals; 5. The tendencies of things: John Stuart Mill and the philosophic method; 6. Sense and circumstances: Bagehot and the nature of political understanding; 7. All that glitters: political science and the lessons of history; 8. The clue to the maze: the appeal of the Comparative Method; 9. Particular polities: political economy and the historical method; 10. The ordinary experience of civilised life: Sidgwick and the method of reflective analysis; 11. A separate science: polity and society in Marshall's economics.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521277701
• ISBN 13: 9780521277709
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 396
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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