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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"The 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
This study 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 …
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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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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
This thesis examines how 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 …
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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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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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The Fragmented Republicanism of Nineteenth-Century Italy (c. 1830s-1880s)
In this thesis, I argue that republican political thought was significant in nineteenth-century Italy, though it was fragmented. To demonstrate this, I analyse the works of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869), Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso (1808-1871), Francesco De Sanctis …
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The Politics of Belief in Hume and Enlightenment Scepticism
This thesis addresses two fundamental questions arising out of the study of the history of political thought: what factors facilitate the moderation of beliefs? And what are the conditions of stability in political life? I approach these issues by investigating the crisis in religious and political …