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Additional Physical Format: | Republicanism (NL-LeOCL)194967182 (OCoLC)902365758 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Pettit |
ISBN: | 0198296428 9780198296423 0585356734 9780585356730 |
OCLC Number: | 63293983 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2019 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award Named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1998 by CHOICE. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 328 pages). |
Contents: | PART 1. REPUBLICANISM FREEDOM ; Before Negative and Positive Liberty ; Liberty as Non-domination ; Non-domination as a Political Ideal ; Liberty, Equality, Community ; PART II. REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT ; Republican Aims: Causes and Policies ; Republican Forms: Constitutionalism and Democracy ; Checking the Republic ; Civilising the Republic ; Republicanism: A Propositional Summary ; Republicanism: Once More with Hindsight |
Series Title: | Oxford political theory. |
Responsibility: | Philip Pettit. |
Abstract:
New in paperback this widely acclaimed volume presents the finest account of contemporary republican principles. The book examines traditional republican conceptions of freedom, negative and positive views of liberty and the implementation of the idea.
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Pettit follows Skinner in aligning himself with a version of republicanism that is every bit as realist and anti-perfectionist as contemporary liberalism, yet capable of offering a genuinely radical critique of its deficiencies in promoting a community of equal citizens. * Res Publica * Petit's work is a major advance on previous studies of republican political philosophy. In terms of analytical rigour and imaginative insight, it is easily the best book on the subject. * Mind * Read more...
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