Republicanism In The Modern World

Author : John Maynor
Publisher : Polity
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745628087

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Republicanism in the Modern World by John Maynor Pdf

In response to the dominance of liberalism, some theorists have recently embraced the republican model as an attractive alternative. The overriding appeal of these moves seems to be the robust emphasis that forms of republicanism place on citizenship and civic virtue in light of what many commentators see as a decline in the social nature of modern politics. However, many of these discussions about republicanism are inconsistent and fail to capture the essence of a classical republican theory for today's complex modern world. The result is that the ideals and values of classical republicanism have become diluted and misappropriated as they are utilized by both philosophers and politicians without a clear and consistent sense of their historical pedigree and their relevance to the contemporary world. Republicanism in the Modern World develops and extends the theoretical implications of a distinctive republican conception of liberty as non-domination. Building on the recent work of Quentin Skinner and Philip Pettit, Maynor explores the complex interdependent relationship between liberty as non-domination and conflict, citizenship, and civic virtue to develop a modern theory of republicanism. Maynor argues that modern republicanism, inspired and informed by classical versions, can be the basis for a renewed effort to rejuvenate the political ideals and institutions of the modern democratic nation-state. This book will be invaluable to students and scholars in politics, political philosophy and international relations.

Author : Adrian Oldfield
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415048753

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Citizenship and Community by Adrian Oldfield Pdf

This work argues that participation in political affairs is not so much the right as the duty of citizens. It is, in fact, the activity that transforms the individual into a citizen and if this is recognized then much will be done to review a sense of community, the lack of which has been remarked upon so much of late.

Author : Adrian Oldfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : OCLC:1391281966

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Citizenship and Community by Adrian Oldfield Pdf

Author : Geoffrey C. Kellow,Neven Leddy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442637498

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On Civic Republicanism by Geoffrey C. Kellow,Neven Leddy Pdf

On Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue to modern questions about political engagement and identity."

Author : Rachel Hammersley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509513451

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Republicanism by Rachel Hammersley Pdf

Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the public interest, to regimes administered by a collective body or an elected president, and even just to systems embodying the values of liberty and civic virtue. But what do we really mean when we talk about republicanism? In this new book, leading scholar Rachel Hammersley expertly and accessibly introduces this complex but important topic. Beginning in the ancient world, she traces the history of republican government in theory and practice across the centuries in Europe and North America, concluding with an analysis of republicanism in our contemporary politics. She argues that republicanism is a dynamic political language, with each new generation of thinkers building on the ideas of their predecessors and adapting them in response to their own circumstances, concerns, and crises. This compelling account of the origins, history, and potential future of one of the world’s most enduring political ideas will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in republicanism, from historians and political theorists to politicians and ordinary citizens.

Author : Christian Nadeau,Daniel Weinstock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135754969

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Republicanism by Christian Nadeau,Daniel Weinstock Pdf

In this collection of writings, leading historians of political thought and political theorists provide an overview of traditional and contemporary republicanism. The first part of the book presents studies of ancient and modern versions of republicanism in Athenian and Roman political thought, as well as in Machiavelli and Montesquieu. The second part focuses on some of the key questions that confront contemporary thinkers, such as: * What ought one to expect of a good state and civil society? * What are the conditions for deliberative democracy? * What are the theoretical implications of a republican conception of political liberty? The essays in this volume advance the debate over republicanism, through both a rigorous philosophical investigation of republicanism's main sources and careful analysis of its meaning.

Author : Geneviève Rousselière,Yiftah Elazar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316517550

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Republicanism and the Future of Democracy by Geneviève Rousselière,Yiftah Elazar Pdf

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

Author : Martin van Gelderen,Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521802032

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Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe by Martin van Gelderen,Quentin Skinner Pdf

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II, first published in 2002, is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.

Author : Rachel Hammersley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : France
ISBN : 0861932730

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French Revolutionaries and English Republicans by Rachel Hammersley Pdf

Following the cataclysmic events of 1789 some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America. However, a small number of thinkers - centred around the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club - looked to the writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republicans for guidance about realising ancient republican ideals in the modern world. This book offers an intellectual history of the Club, through a close analysis of texts and the relationships between their authors. Its main focus is on individual club members and their translations of and borrowings from the works of such thinkers as Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and Thomas Gordon: the author shows how the Cordeliers adapted and developed those ideas so as to make them serve contemporary circumstances and concerns, and demonstrates that even after the establishment of a French republic in 1792, members of the Cordeliers Club continued to make use of English republican ideas in order to respond to key constitutional and political questions.

Author : Cecile Laborde,John Maynor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470766224

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Republicanism and Political Theory by Cecile Laborde,John Maynor Pdf

Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. Critically assesses its historical credentials, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals Brings together original contributions from leading international scholars in an interactive way Provides the reader with valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political theory

Author : José Luis Martí,Philip Pettit
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400835058

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A Political Philosophy in Public Life by José Luis Martí,Philip Pettit Pdf

The story of a Princeton professor's role as the unofficial philosophical adviser to the Spanish government This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000, he pledged that if his socialist party won power he would govern Spain in accordance with the principles laid out in Philip Pettit's 1997 book Republicanism, which presented, as an alternative to liberalism and communitarianism, a theory of freedom and government based on the idea of nondomination. When Zapatero was elected President in 2004, he invited Pettit to Spain to give a major speech about his ideas. Zapatero also invited Pettit to monitor Spanish politics and deliver a kind of report card before the next election. Pettit did so, returning to Spain in 2007 to make a presentation in which he gave Zapatero's government a qualified thumbs-up for promoting republican ideals. In this book, Pettit and José Luis Martí provide the historical background to these unusual events, explain the principles of civic republicanism in accessible terms, present Pettit's report and his response to some of its critics, and include an extensive interview with Zapatero himself. In addition, the authors discuss what is required of a political philosophy if it is to play the sort of public role that civic republicanism has been playing in Spain. An important account of a rare and remarkable encounter between contemporary political philosophy and real-world politics, this is also a significant work of political philosophy in its own right.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004351387

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Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination by Anonim Pdf

Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination offers a new approach to the study of the classical dimensions of early modern republican thought by analysing its specific and concrete uses of ancient republican models.

Author : Fabrizio Ricciardelli,Marcello Fantoni
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24T16:26:00+02:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788833135540

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Republicanism by Fabrizio Ricciardelli,Marcello Fantoni Pdf

We live in a world in which almost all states purport to be republican. Very few adhere to the Ciceronian concept of res publica, understood as “that which belongs to the popolo (respublica respopuli) [...] and which has the observance of the law and the commonality of interests as its foundation”. The concept of republicanism is traditionally connected to the principle that true political freedom consists of not being subject to the arbitrary will of any man or group of men, and it requires equality of civil and political rights. Republicanism has attracted scholars who aim to develop insights from the classical republican tradition into an attractive political doctrine suitable for modern pluralistic societies. The volume examines republicanism from an historical and theoretical perspective after many years of scholarly investigation and debate.

Author : John Morton Blum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674763025

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The Republican Roosevelt by John Morton Blum Pdf

This is a book about politics and politicians; about elections, lawmaking, governing, and how they work. It is also about power, its increasing concentration in American society, and its implications at home and abroad especially for those who exercise it. It is a book about the Republican Party during the period in which it developed the forces and frictions which still characterize it today. Finally, it is a book about a remarkably successful and vibrant man who contained within himself much of the best and the worst of his environment, who contributed generously to American life, who knew in his time disappointment, temptation, and pain, but also glory; a man remembered most by his intimates for the "fun of him." The author is in an enviable position to assess these matters. During five years as Associate Editor of The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, he read and studied all TR's letters as well as all his published works, and delved deeply into the relevant literature of the period, including the vast material in the Congressional Record. From this rich store, John Morton Blum has drawn a new interpretation of Roosevelt the conservative, Roosevelt the professional Republican politician and Roosevelt the leader of men. He presents new material on Roosevelt's work as the manager of the Republican Party and as manager of Congress. He relates Roosevelt's roles in these situations to his conduct of foreign policy--a foreign policy so anticipatory of that of contemporary America--and to his Progressiveness--a doctrine of government with strong affinities to both the New Deal and the New Crusade.

Author : Grace Yen Shen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226090542

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Unearthing the Nation by Grace Yen Shen Pdf

Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Shen shows that Chinese geologists—in battling growing Western and Japanese encroachment of Chinese sovereignty—faced two ongoing challenges: how to develop objective, internationally recognized scientific authority without effacing native identity, and how to serve China when China was still searching for a stable national form. Shen argues that Chinese geologists overcame these obstacles by experimenting with different ways to associate the subjects of their scientific study, the land and its features, with the object of their political and cultural loyalties. This, in turn, led them to link national survival with the establishment of scientific authority in Chinese society. The first major history of modern Chinese geology, Unearthing the Nation introduces the key figures in the rise of the field, as well as several key organizations, such as the Geological Society of China, and explains how they helped bring Chinese geology onto the world stage.