Alin Fumurescu

Compromise

A Political and Philosophical History

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9781107029439
• ISBN-10: 1107029430
• Artikelnr.: 36772892

Autorenporträt

Alin Fumurescu is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 'in politics we have an art...'
2. No compromise about compromise
3. The genealogy of compromise and its vagaries
4. The dialectic of the individual
5. Compromise and centripetal individualism
6. Compromise and centrifugal individualism
7. The forgotten road of representation: continental contractarian theories
8. The British contract as com-promise
9. Conclusions: compromising the art of compromise - the one-dimensional man.