| Description |
xii, 360 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Ideas in context |
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Ideas in context.
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| Contents |
Saint-Simon and the passage from political to social science / Robert Wokler -- Alexander Hamilton and the language of political science / Judith N. Shklar |
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The concept of a language and the métier d'historien : some considerations on practice / J.G.A. Pocock -- The history of the word politicus in early-modern Europe / Nicolai Rubinstein -- Civil science in the Renaissance : the problem of interpretation / Donald Kelley -- Dispossessing the barbarian : the language of Spanish Thomism and the debate over the property rights of the American Indians / Anthony Pagden -- The 'modern' theory of natural law / Richard Tuck -- Sir Thomas More's Utopia and the language of Renaissance humanism / Quentin Skinner -- The concept of ordre and the language of classical republicanism in Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Maurizio Viroli |
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The language of seventeenth-century republicanism in the United Provinces : Dutch or European? / Eco Haitsma Mulier -- The civil religion of James Harrington / Mark Goldie -- Liberty, luxury and the pursuit of happiness / M.M. Goldsmith -- The language of sociability and commerce : Samuel Pufendorf and the theoretical foundations of the 'Four-Stages Theory' / Istvan Hont -- 'Da metafisico a mercatante' : Antonio Genovesi and the development of a new language of commerce in eighteenth-century Naples / Richard Bellamy -- The criticism of rhetorical historiography and the ideal of scientific method : history, nature and science in the political language of Thomas Hobbes / Gigliola Rossini |
| Analysis |
Europe Politics Theories Linguistic aspects, 1400-1800 |
| Notes |
"Earlier versions of seven of these essays ... were originally delivered at a conference on political languages held at the European University Institute in Florence in September 1983"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political science -- Europe -- History.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| Author |
Pagden, Anthony.
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| LC no. |
86014714 |
| ISBN |
0521320879 |
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