文档介绍：A HISTORY OF WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic, engaged and lucid account of the
most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half
millennia. traces the development and consolidation of a tradition of
Western political thought from Ancient Greece through to the development of the modern
state, the American Enlightenment, the rise of liberalism and the very different reactions
it engendered. He discusses how a tradition beginning before Socrates might be said to
have played itself out in the second half of the twentieth century.
McClelland’s aim is to tell plete story: his definition of politics passes
both power wielded from above and power threatened from below, and the sustained
pursuit of this theme leads him to present an original and often controversial view of the
theorists of the received canon and to add to that canon some writers he feels have been
neglected unjustly.
A History of Western Political Thought will inform, challenge, provoke and entertain
any reader interested in what people have had to say about politics in the last two and half
thousand years, and why it matters.
is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Nottingham. He has
held visiting posts at the University of Indiana at Bloomington and Sacramento State
University, California. His previous publications include The French Right: From De
Maistre to Maurras and The Crowd: From Plato to ti.
A HISTORY OF WESTERN
POLITICAL THOUGHT
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First published 1996
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