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Beschreibung
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'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term 'political science': in fact, as this book demonstrates, it remained the overarching category under which many nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve systematic understanding of man's common life. As a result of both the over-concentration on closed abstract systems of thought and the intrusion of concerns which pervade much writing in the history of political theory and of the social sciences, these attempts have since been neglected or misrepresented. By deliberately avoiding such approaches, this book restores the subject to its centrality in the intellectual life and political culture of nineteenth-century Britain.
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'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term 'political science': in fact, as this book demonstrates, it remained the overarching category under which many nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve systematic understanding of man's common life. As a result of both the over-concentration on closed abstract systems of thought and the intrusion of concerns which pervade much writing in the history of political theory and of the social sciences, these attempts have since been neglected or misrepresented. By deliberately avoiding such approaches, this book restores the subject to its centrality in the intellectual life and political culture of nineteenth-century Britain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521277709
ISBN-10: 0521277701
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Collini, Stefan
Winch, Donald
Burrow, John
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Stefan Collini (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.02.2008
Gewicht: 0,641 kg
Artikel-ID: 113576028