John Dunn

Interpreting Political Responsibility

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Produktbeschreibung

The task of political theory is to show human beings how they have good reason to act in the historical situation in which they find themselves. The central theme of interpreting political responsibility is the increasingly inefffectual contribtuion of modern academic study of political theory to carrying out this task.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: September 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780745608280
• ISBN-10: 0745608280
• Artikelnr.: 23413801

Autorenporträt

John Dunn is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous works including Rethinking Modern Political Theory (1985), Modern Revolutions (1989) and The Politics of Socialism (1984).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction.
2. What is Living and what is Dead in the Political Theory of John Locke?.
3. Trust and Political Agency.
4. Rights and Political Conflict.
5. Liberty as a Substantive Political Value.
6. Revolution.
7. Country Risk: Social and Cultural Aspects.
8. Responsibility without Power: States and the Incoherence of the Modern
Conception of the Political Good.
9. The Politics of Representation and Good Government in Postcolonial
Africa.
10. Unger's Politics and the appraisal of Political Possibility.
11. Elusive Community: the Political Theory of Charles Taylor.
12. Reconceiving the Content and Character of Modern Political Community.