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A history of modern political thought : the question of interpretation
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.
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Plato and Hegel
Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the general disparities involved in their particular ways of seeking to fulfil these aspirations. Professor Browning compares the political thought of Plato and Hegel by locating their political theorizing within the context of their divergent modes of philosophizing.
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Understanding contemporary society : theories of the present
This is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the practical applications of social theory in helping students to make sense of the modern world.
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The German Ideology: the theory of history and the history of theory
The central concern of this paper is to argue that The German Ideology should be analysed and interpreted as an integral whole. Its various sections are intimately related to one another and share a community of purpose and character. In design and practice, The German Ideology is a work devoted to the history of theory. The character of the project upon which Marx and Engels are engaged in The German Ideology is clearly conveyed in the subtitles of its two volumes, 'Critique of Modern German Philosophy according to its representatives, Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner' and 'Critique of German Socialism according to its various prophets'. The sections on Feuerbach, Bauer and Stirner which constitute Volume 1 explain and criticize the respective philosophical positions of these Young Hegelian Theorists by relating them to one another and tracing their source in Hegel's absolute idealism. The second volume, dealing with German socialism, is concerned to identify and criticize the attachment of German socialists to the language and concepts of philosophers in the Hegelian tradition analysed in the first volume. The central concern of The German Ideology to criticize contemporary theories shapes its well-known statements on materialism, historical method and alienation.
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