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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"History of Political Thought"”.
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Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Representative Democracy
There is a renewed interest in the concept of representation and its relationship to democracy, both in political theory and the history of political thought. Yet, despite the fact that he is one of the few thinkers to theorise representative democracy as his preferred form of government …
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Anglo-Scottish succession tracts during the late Elizabethan period, 1595-1603
… seeks to examine the way in which contemporaries of James VI defended his right to the English throne in succession literature, during the ‘last decade’ of Elizabeth I’s reign. Five succession tracts written or published in Scotland in the 1590’s that discuss the right of James VI to the crown of …
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Iraqi Shi'ites and Identity Conflict: A Study in the Developments of their Religious-Political Identities From 1920-2003
… Iraqi Shi'ites' revival post-2003 and the rise of communal identity make an increasing need to study the roots of their political identities. This study surveys literature written about the political behavior of Shi'ites at different historical eras in the 20th century (to be specific, from the …
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Love and Duty in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke
This is the first book-length study of the family in Edmund Burke’s political thought. It situates Burke’s ideas about the family within his broader interest in the civic importance of love and duty, which also encompassed love and duty toward friends, country, and mankind. Although the influence …
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Anti-Imperialism and the Critique of Managerialism in Post- War American Thought, 1939–1995
… relationship between anti- statism and social thought in post-war America. I look at a cluster of intellectuals who were critics of the Cold War, empire, and the managerial state, charting debates around these controversial topics from the late-1930s to the mid-1990s. Managerialism created a …
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
… ecclesiological debates informed the languages of political legitimacy advanced by royalist and Covenanter leaders during the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651). During King Charles I’s reign, Scottish Presbyterians faced a Protestant king who attempted to secure supremacy over the kirk by imposing …
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A “Medieval” Myth for a “Modern” Empire Britain under the Shadow of Arthur (1461–1612)
<p>This dissertation studies the use of the Arthurian myth from the fifteenth through early seventeenth centuries, as a narrative that connected a set of political principles for the unification of Britain and its imperial expansion. Joining other competing political myths in the British …
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The political philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi: A close reading of the philosophical foundations of cooperative communitarianism
The thesis is a historical and philological study of the mature political theory of Miki Kiyoshi (1897-1945) focused on Philosophical Foundations of Cooperative Communitarianism (1939), a full translation of which is included. As the name suggests, it was a methodological and normative …
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Citizenship, exile, and natural rights in medieval Roman law, ca. 1200-1400
This dissertation lies at the intersection of the history of political thought and legal history. It concerns the relationship between the political community (civitas) and the individual, as citizen (civis) and as human being, in the medieval Roman law tradition from ea. 1200 to 1400. My primary …
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Adam Smith and the Consequences of Inequality
This is the first book-length study of Adam Smith’s thoughts on inequality. The scholarly literature on Smith is vast, but hitherto comparatively little has been written on this feature of his thought. The prevailing interpretation of Smith as a thinker primarily interested in the plight of the …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
Minding the Mundane theorizes an important way of thinking about politics both today and in the history of European political thought. I call this the mundane perspective and locate it particularly in Epicurus and his ancient followers, as well as (in modified form) in early modern European …
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Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Ralf Dahrendorf's Materialist Liberalism
This thesis offers a comprehensive account of Ralf Dahrendorf’s liberal political thought between the early 1950s and the late 1980s, with particular emphasis on the role that his methodological ideas played in his conception of politics. It argues that materialist conceptions, borrowed from Karl …
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Leviathan on a Leash: a political theory of state responsibility
The idea of state responsibility is central to modern politics and international relations. States are blamed for wars, punished with sanctions, held liable for debts and reparations, and bound by treaties. But why do we assign some responsibilities to whole states rather than to individual leaders …
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Race and Imperial Democracy on the British Left, c. 1885–1914
… democracy and empire in British progressive thought between c. 1885 and 1914. It focuses on three prominent ‘new liberal’ thinkers who were preoccupied with theorising the relationship between metropolitan democracy and imperial hierarchy: John A. Hobson, Leonard T. Hobhouse, and Graham …
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The Problem of Life: Governing Bodies Before and Beyond Biopolitics
… a historically specific modern configuration of power rather than a universal category for all governance of bodies. It recovers what it calls the problem of life, the foundational political task of producing bodies fit for a regime’s form of rule and shows that this concern both predates and …
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in Benjamin Constant’s (1767-1830) political thought. Most contributions have started from the premise that Constant was a ‘liberal’, despite his own elusive use of the term. As a result, scholars have often interpreted Constant’s thought in ways …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… I consider the nature and application of theories of the imagination by, especially English, Protestants, over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I make four significant observations. First, I argue that English Protestant philosophical treatments of the imagination were …
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The Conservative Power and the debate on constitutional guardianship in the United States and France, 1776-1815
… dissertation presents the first complete account of a theory of constitutional guardianship, referred to as the ‘conservative power’ (pouvoir conservateur) by its proponents, which played a central role in both American and French Revolutionary constitution-making from 1776-1815. Focusing …
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Seeking Justice in Gender Revolution: He-Yin Zhen's Contributions to Chinese Political Thought
… significance, and theoretical contributions of the Chinese anarcha-feminist He-Yin Zhen, a consequential yet under-studied figure. He-Yin’s journal, Natural Justice, introduced canonical socialist works to China, making her China’s first socialist feminist. An early intersectional thinker, …
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Becoming Environmental: Murray Bookchin in the Postwar Era
This dissertation offers a critical reconstruction of Murray Bookchin’s early political thought, placing a particular emphasis on the role that changing perceptions of the environment played in shaping his ideas. It argues that the distinction between ‘environmentalism’ and ‘ecology’ that Bookchin …
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