The Nature of Politics

by Roger D. Masters

Book Overview

This important and original book examines the nature of politics from a perspective cutting across conventional academic disciplines. Returning to the traditional emphasis on human nature as the foundation of politics, Roger D. Masters links major issues in Western political philosophy with contemporary research in the life sciences. By relating evolutionary biology, social psychology, linguistics, and game theory to politics, Masters proposes a framework...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300049811
• ISBN13: 9780300049817
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"