Montesquieu And Social Theory

Author : John Alan Baum
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 200 pages
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Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483189055

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Montesquieu and Social Theory by John Alan Baum Pdf

Montesquieu and Social Theory details Montesquieu’s contribution to sociology. The title chronicles Montesquieu’s work that led to establishing the fundamentals and principles of sociology. The text first details Montesquieu’s biographical account, and then proceeds to discussing the Montesquieu’s motivation in his works. The next chapters encompass Montesquieu’s works, which include Persian Letter; Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline; and (On) The Spirit of the Laws. The last chapter details Montesquieu's influence in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book will be of great interest to anyone who has a keen interest in the development of social science.

Author : Brian Singer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137027702

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Montesquieu and the Discovery of the Social by Brian Singer Pdf

Montesquieu is often considered the first social thinker. Today, when 'the end of the social' has been proclaimed, it is time to reconsider its beginnings. In a wide-ranging, original interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws, this book explores what did it mean to 'discover the social', and what can it mean to recover the social today?

Author : Melvyn Richter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521211565

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The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu by Melvyn Richter Pdf

This volume makes available in an English translation the most significant part of Montesquieu's political, social and legal theory. About two-thirds of the volume has been translated from the Spirit of the Laws, not redone in English since the eighteenth century. That version was notoriously inadequate: Montesquieu's key terms were not rendered consistently; often his meaning was distorted by giving the nearest English eighteenth-century legal or institutional equivalent. Finally, English usage has changed so much that the eighteenth-century translation makes Montesquieu seem both quaint and obscure. This volume also includes substantial selections from the Persian Letters and the Considerations on the Causes of the Romans; Greatness and Decline. Although adequate translations of these works exist, it seemed advisable to maintain intellectual and stylistic consistency by providing English versions on the same principles as the Spirit of the Laws.

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136225581

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Montesquieu by Werner Stark Pdf

First published in 1998. This is Volume X of twenty-two in the Sociology of Social Theory and Methodology series. Written in 1960, this focuses on Baron de Montesquieu the pioneer of the Sociology of Knowledge and the author’s wish to correct the widespread conviction that the sociology of knowledge as a whole, and not only the doctrine of ideology, is the child of revolutionary sentiment.

Author : Johan Heilbron
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745667027

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The Rise of Social Theory by Johan Heilbron Pdf

This book is a detailed and wide-ranging account of the birth of social theory as a distinctive and modern intellectual genre, providing a brilliant account of the "pre-history" of sociology and a vivid portrayal of intellectual culture between the Enlightenment and the age of Romanticism.

Author : John Petrov Plamenatz,M. E. Plamenatz,Robert Wokler
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000021011337

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Man and Society: From Montesquieu to the early socialists by John Petrov Plamenatz,M. E. Plamenatz,Robert Wokler Pdf

V.1 From the Middle Ages to locke -- V.2 From Montesquieu to the early socialists -- V.3 Hegel, Marx and Engels, and the idea of progress.

Author : Huysseune Michel
Publisher : EMIL
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788866802952

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Political Theory and Social Customs: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Volney, and Constant by Huysseune Michel Pdf

Political Theory and Social Customs: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Volney, and Constant provides novel insights on how these authors’ reflections on social customs influenced their contributions to political theory. Through his journey to Italy, Montesquieu developed a theoretical model on social customs and their relation to political systems. In the Constitutional Project for Corsica, Rousseau inserted his discussion of Corsican mores within an analysis of the power dynamics between centre and periphery. Volney’s evaluations of customs in the Middle East and the United States show how the French revolution impacted his conceptualization of politics and cultural difference. Constant based his political theory on the different societal mores of the ancients and the moderns.

Author : Émile Durkheim
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0952993600

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Montesquieu by Émile Durkheim Pdf

Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748) is one of the outstanding works of modern social thought. Durkheim's Latin thesis (1892) is not only one of the outstanding interpretations of that work, but also a seminal statement of his own ideas on society and on sociological method. It was the companion thesis to The Division of Labour and a forerunner of The Rules of Sociological Method. This is the first English translation directly from the original Latin text, and also includes the original text, along with full editorial notes, a related article by Durkheim on Hyppolite Taine and a commentary on Durkheim and Montesquieu by W. Watts Miller.

Author : Geoffrey Hawthorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521337216

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Enlightenment and Despair by Geoffrey Hawthorn Pdf

An acclaimed critical history of social theory from the eighteenth century onwards.

Author : Judith N. Shklar
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521316405

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Men and Citizens by Judith N. Shklar Pdf

Cambridge paperback library. First published 1969. Includes bibliographical references. 5.

Author : Irving M. Zeitlin
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110302853

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Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory by Irving M. Zeitlin Pdf

This book provides complete, systematic expositions of the classical sociological thinkers, theories, and concepts--from the 18th-century Enlightenment to the 20th century. It features broad, extended, and balanced coverage of both the European theorists of Social Structure as well as the Classical American Theorists of Social Psychology. Covers Montesquieu; Rousseau; Mary Wollstonecraft; Bonald and Maistre; Saint-Simon; Auguste Comte; Alexis de Tocqueville; Harriet Martineau; Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill; Karl Marx; Frederick Engels; Max Weber; Gaitano Mosca; Robert Michels); Émile Durkheim; Karl Mannheim; Charles Sanders Peirce; William James; John Dewey; George Herbert Mead. For anyone interested in Classical Social Theory and Classical Principles of Social Psychology.

Author : Michel Huysseune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8866802735

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Political Theory and Social Customs: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Volney and Constant by Michel Huysseune Pdf

Author : Hermann Strasser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317652328

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The Normative Structure of Sociology (RLE Social Theory) by Hermann Strasser Pdf

In this provocative analysis of the central issues and developments in modern social theory, Dr Strasser contends that enquiry into the function, tasks and mission of sociology as a discipline can be understood only in relation to the subject's historical development. He believes that a discussion of the origin and intention of sociology, particularly in relation to the established social order, enables us to grasp fully the nature of sociological theory, both past and present. He maintains that a sociologist's own position in society, and consequently his views on its development and his way of expressing those views, will affect the theoretical position he takes up.

Author : Emile Durkheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472751174

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Montesquieu and Rousseau by Emile Durkheim Pdf

Montesquieu & Rousseau provides, for the first time in English, two essays by Emile Durkheim on his chief eighteenth-century predecessors in the main stream of Western thought. Durkheim recognized that Montesquieu had laid down the principles of sociology long before that young science had a name and that Rousseau, too, spoke as a sociologist in The Social Contract. With his characteristic blend of reason and fervor, he enlarged upon these forerunners to create the fundamental ideas of modern sociology. The essays are valuable for what they tell us of Montesquieu and Rousseau. They are doubly important to readers who are directly concerned with political philosophy and social science. And, as Henri Peyre points out in the Foreword, they are an example of how the best minds of any age can serve each other.

Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226482910

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Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe by Vickie B. Sullivan Pdf

Montesquieu is famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, Vickie B. Sullivan argues that a creaful reading of Montesquieu's enormously influential The Spirit of the Law reveals the surprising result that he recognizes that Europe itself is susceptible to despotic practices - and that the threat emanates not from the East but rather from certain despotic ideas that inform Western institutions and practices. Sullivan guides readers through Montesquieu's sometimes veiled yet sharply critical accounts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as various Christian thinkers have brough forth despotic ideas in the form, for example, of brutal Machiavellianism, of Hobbes's justifications for the rule of one, of Plato's reasoning that denied slaves the right of natural defense, and of the Christian teachings that equated heresy with treason. Such ideas, Montesquieu shows, inform such revered European institutions as the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. In this new reading of Montesquieu's masterwork, Sullivan corrects the misconception that it offers simple, objective observations, showing it to be instead a powerful critique of European politics that would become remarkably and regrettably prescient after Montesquieu's death, when despotism repeatedly emerged in Europe with virulent intensity. -- from dust jacket.