On Politics - Hardcover
On Politics How should human beings best govern themselves? That question raises innumerable others: can we manage our own affairs at all? Should we even try? This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given. Full description
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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)
About the Author:
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)
Alan Ryan, the former warden of New College, Oxford, has taught political theory at Oxford and Princeton since 1969. His books include The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell: A Political Life and Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education.
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1846147794
- ISBN 13 9781846147791
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages1120
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