A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation

by Gary Browning Professor and Gary Browning

Book Overview

How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal?

In this book, theories of interpreting past political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199682291
• ISBN13: 9780199682294
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"