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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Ryan |
ISBN: | 9780713993646 0713993642 |
OCLC Number: | 808492798 |
Description: | xxv, 1114 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Bk. 1. Herodotus to Machiavelli -- bk. 2. Hobbes to the present. |
Responsibility: | Alan Ryan. |
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In a work of astonishing scope and ambition, Alan Ryan, surveying the whole vast field, concisely charts the welter of conflicting positions and tracks the sometimes thrilling, sometimes catastrophic consequences of political thought -- Stephen Greenblatt Ryan demonstrates vivacity throughout, and a tenacious grasp of the human meaning of everything that has transpired in political speculation from the ancients on through the threshold of our own dark age. I commend particularly his terse eloquence, his capacious erudition, and the judicious intensity with which he somehow allows his whole being to inform his vast scope and deep concern of our human limitations -- Harold Bloom Read more...


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