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A Textual Introduction to Social and Political Theory

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Textual Introduction to Social and Political Theory
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Bellamy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780719046391
ClassificationsDewey:320.01
Audience
Undergraduate

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 9 May 1996
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition's principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency in which to debate the problems facing modern societies. Each of the twelve chapters combines extracts from two (or in one case three) political philosophers on a key political concept with a commentary essay. Each chapter does more than just introduce the reader to the classics; it also explains, via the commentary essay, the key concepts of political debate, and the historical contexts which led the thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society. -- .

Author Biography

Richard Bellamy is Professor of Government at the University of Essex