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

Klappentext In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a 'science of politics'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The governing science: things political and the intellectual historian; 2. The system of the North: Dugald Stewart and his pupils; 3. Higher maxims: happiness versus wealth in Malthus and Ricardo; 4. The cause of good government: Philosophic Whigs versus Philosophic Radicals; 5. The tendencies of things: John Stuart Mill and the philosophic method; 6. Sense and circumstances: Bagehot and the nature of political understanding; 7. All that glitters: political science and the lessons of history; 8. The clue to the maze: the appeal of the Comparative Method; 9. Particular polities: political economy and the historical method; 10. The ordinary experience of civilised life: Sidgwick and the method of reflective analysis; 11. A separate science: polity and society in Marshall's economics.

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• Authors: John Burrow, Stefan Collini, Stefan Winch Collini, Donald Winch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.1983
• EAN: 9780521277709
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27770-9
• No. of pages: 396
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries