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This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several of the essays have been previously published (though they have not all been widely available), and several appear here for the first time in print.
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This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the eighteenth century. Several of the essays have been previously published (though they have not all been widely available), and several appear here for the first time in print.
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Of the ten essays that compose the remainder of this volume, nine were originally published between 1976 and 1982, though one or two were written for spoken delivery substantially earlier than their appearance in print. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Of the ten essays that compose the remainder of this volume, nine were originally published between 1976 and 1982, though one or two were written for spoken delivery substantially earlier than their appearance in print. Read the first page
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This is a very interesting collection of essays on 18th century Britain by the outstanding intellectual historian JGA Pocock. Pocock discusses a variety of interesting figures, some very well known like Hume and Burke, as well as more obscure figures. As is characteristic of all Pocock's work, these essays embody a systematic effort to understand these thinkers in a non-anachronistic and contextually grounded manner. Pocock's knowledge of the texts is remarkable and his broad knowledge of many thinkers leads to impressive analyses of 18th century thought. Continuing one of the major themes of his great The Machiavellian Moment, a number of these essays deal with political thought reacting to the emerging commercial and imperial society of 18th century Britain. Some of the best essays deal with the broad and interesting Whig tradition that emerges from the interaction of 17th republican theory and the changes in British society. His analyses of several thinkers, such as his descriptions of Hume as a Scottish scientific Whig and his description of Burke as a conservative defending a revolutionary order, and remarkably insightful.
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