Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain: 24 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 24)

Cambridge University Press, 3/4/1993
EAN 9780521392426, ISBN10: 052139242X

Hardcover, 464 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Originally published in 1993, this collection of essays, all by pre-eminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organised on a broadly chronological basis, the topics addressed by individual scholars reflect in general the themes initiated and inspired by the work of the distinguished intellectual historian J. G. A. Pocock, for whom the collection is intended as a tribute. Each of the sixteen contributors have thought long and critically about Pocock's seminal contributions to the subject, and in each essay they engage with the debates he has provoked. As a fitting conclusion to the volume, Professor Pocock responds to the essays and provided his personal interpretation of the themes they invoke.

Preface
Part I
1. George Buchanan and the Anti-Monarchomachs J. H. Burns
2. The ancient constitution revisited William Klein
3. Arminianism
the controversy that never was William Lamont
4. Scienta civilis in classical rhetoric and in the early Hobbes Quentin Skinner
Part II
5. Parliamentary sovereignty
a very English absolutism Michael Mendle
6. The civil religion of Thomas Hobbes Richard Tuck
7. The rapture of motion
James Harrington's republicanism Jonathan Scott
8. Casuistry to Newcastle
The Prince in the world of the book Conal Condren
Part III
9. Between Lambeth and Leviathan
Samuel Parker on the Church of England and political order Gordon J. Schochet
10. Priestcraft and the birth of Whiggism Mark Goldie
11. The right to resist
Whig resistance theory in the Revolution of 1688–9 Lois G. Schwoerer
12. Placing the Two Treatises James Tully
Part IV
13. Shaftesbury, politeness and the politics of religion Lawrence Klein
14. Propriety, property and prudence
David Hume and the defence of the revolution Nicholas Phillipson
15. The rhapsody of public debt
David Hume and the voluntary state bankruptcy Istvan Hont
16. Universal monarchy and the liberties of Europe
David Hume's critique of an English Whig doctrine John Robertson
Part V
17. A discourse of sovereignty
observations on the work in progress J. G. A. Pocock
A bibliography of the writings of J. G. A. Pocock
Index.