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That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

Burrow, John
Winch, Donald
Collini, Stefan

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Paperback Library

General Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521277701
ISBN13: 9780521277709
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 24 1983
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science of politics'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term 'political science': in fact, as this book demonstrates, it remained the overarching category under which many nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve systematic understanding of man's common life. As a result of both the over-concentration on closed abstract systems of thought and the intrusion of concerns which pervade much writing in the history of political theory and of the social sciences, these attempts have since been neglected or misrepresented. By deliberately avoiding such approaches, this book restores the subject to its centrality in the intellectual life and political culture of nineteenth-century Britain.

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