EAN: 9783030028794

A READERS COMPANION TO THE PRINCE LEVIATHAN AND...

Machiavelli  Hobbes  and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order. This book
serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli's The Prince  Hobbes's Leviathan  and Locke's
Second Treatise written for graduate students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of
these classic texts. How do these philosophers respond to perennial questions such as why
anyone is ever obligated to obey a government and whether there are any limits to such an
obligation. In this book  Bookman begins by sorting out the hermeneutical controversy between
textualists and contextualists  offers a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the texts punctuated
by questions for the reader's reflection  and finally suggests a firmer foundation for a theory
of political obligation than Hobbes's and Locke's consent theories. Also included are
bibliographical essays keyed to select bibliographies  providing readers with a wide-ranging 
critical review of the secondary literature. Intended to be read alongside the primary work 
the work is a full intellectual  critical  and bibliographical history  as well as a fresh
examination of three classic texts in political theory and philosophy.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9783030028794

Produktinformationen zur 9783030028794