Against the State: Studies in Sedition and Rebellion (BBC Books) - Softcover

Coleman, Janet

 
9780140248166: Against the State: Studies in Sedition and Rebellion (BBC Books)

Synopsis

By the author of "Political Thought from Plato to Nato", this text explores the political disobedience of individuals and groups across the centuries. From the involuntary matrydom of Socrates to the voluntary martyrdom of the Christians in the Roman Empire; from passive opposition to the State to the violent options of revolution, this book considers the many different approaches to sedition and rebellion. The book sets out to reveal the reasoning behind some of history's thinkers - Thomas More, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx - and how some of the more notorious opponents of the State in the past achieve a hero's status in modern thinking.

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ISBN 10:  0563208678 ISBN 13:  9780563208679
Publisher: BBC Books, 1990
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