J. G. A. Pocock and the History of British Political.
This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several of the essays have been previously published (though they have not all been widely available), and several appear here for the first time in print. What people are saying - Write a review.
The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J.G.A. Pocock, ed. D.N. DeLuna with the assistance of Perry Anderson and Glenn Burgess. J.G.A. Pocock's Valedictory Lecture, Presented at The Johns Hopkins University. An Essay on the Original of Literature by Daniel Defoe. Theodore L. Blumberg, The Seven Deadly Sins of Legal Writing.
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John Greville Agard Pocock (born 7 March 1924) is a historian of political thought.He is especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period (especially in Europe, Britain, and America), his work on the history of English Common Law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and other Enlightenment historians, and, in historical method, for his contributions to the history of.
Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they be studied? The book then explores ten contemporary approaches to understanding political thought.
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J. G. A. Pocock This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several of the essays have been previously published (though they have not all been widely available), and several appear here for the first time in print.