Εισαγωγή στην Ιστορία της Πολιτικής Θεωρίας
George Klosko, 1993
A working history of Western political thought, from the Greek city-state to Marx, told through the thinkers' own words — and why they still matter now. This volume runs from the Greeks to the Reformation. It grounds the great thinkers in the rooms and cities where they actually wrote. The ideas that shaped the Western political tradition, still worth arguing with today. That old canon of dead white male theorists is still used to think through current political life. Western political thought from the Greeks to Marx, told through the thinkers' own words and their lives. A history of Western political thought from the inner Greek city to Marx, told through the thinkers' own arguments. The prose stays plain and steady, with a curiosity that builds as thinkers are placed in their own cities and arguments.
Feels like curiosity, awe and serenity. About power and time.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you want a patient, source-based history of Western political ideas rather than a quick survey. Be aware that the book stays with the traditional canon of mostly male European thinkers and asks you to follow dense arguments closely.
Why read it
It gives you the thinkers' own arguments in context, so the old canon becomes something to test against present political questions.
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Rousseau read Rousseau; Rousseau also read Aquinas first.
George Klosko για να κατανοήσει κανείς τον ρουσσώ, πρέπει να διαβάσει τον ροσσαίους, και για να εκτιμήσει τον τελευταίο, πρέπει να επιστρέψει στον Ακινάτη, στον χίλντεμπραντ και στον Αυγουστίνο. Οι ηχηρές ϕράσεις της Διακήρυξης της Ανεξαρτησίας ή των Δικαιωμάτων του Ανθρώπου δεν είναι μια πρωτότυπη ανακάλυψη αλλά είναι κληρονομιά όλων των περασμένων εποχών, η αποθησαύριση των συναισθημάτων και των σκέψεων εβδομήντα γενεών πολιτισμού. […] Ο Μαριάνα ϕύτεψε, ο Αλθούσιος πότισε και ο ροβεσπιέρος θέρισε τη σοδειά.* Τζον Φίγκις * Το απόσπασμα από το John N. Figgis, Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius: 1414-1625, Κέιμπριτζ 1907, σ. 30, αναδεικνύει τη χρήση θρησκευτικών θεωριών και μοτίβων στη ανάπτυξη των πολιτικών ιδεών της νεωτερικότητας. Στο συγκεκριμένο απόσπασμα παραλληλίζει ομοιότητες στην προϕορά των ονομάτων των εν λόγω στοχαστών με εννοιολογικές συγγένειές τους. George Klosko.George Klosko is a political theorist at the University of Virginia; his two-volume history traces Western political thought from the Greek city-state to Marx, built around what thinkers actually wrote.
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- Is Εισαγωγή στην Ιστορία της Πολιτικής Θεωρίας for me?
- You may like it if you want a patient, source-based history of Western political ideas rather than a quick survey. Be aware that the book stays with the traditional canon of mostly male European thinkers and asks you to follow dense arguments closely.
- What is Εισαγωγή στην Ιστορία της Πολιτικής Θεωρίας like?
- The prose stays plain and steady, with a curiosity that builds as thinkers are placed in their own cities and arguments. Feels like curiosity, awe and serenity. About power and time.
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