How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World

Name: How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781472961785
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By (author): Dr Graeme Garrard Graeme Garrard James Bernard Murphy Professor James Bernard Murphy

'A wonderful introduction to historys most influential scribblers' Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless questions posed and answers offered by a diverse group of the 30 greatest political thinkers who have ever lived. Are we political, economic, or religious animals? Should we live in small city-states, nations, or multinational empires? What values should politics promote? Should wealth be owned privately or in common? Do animals also have rights? There is no idea too radical for this global assortment of thinkers, which includes: Confucius; Plato; Augustine; Machiavelli; Burke; Wollstonecraft; Marx; Nietzsche; Gandhi; Qutb; Arendt; Nussbaum, Naess and Rawls. In each brief chapter, the authors paint a vivid portrait of these often prescient, always compelling political thinkers, showing how their ideas grew out of their own dramatic lives and times and evolved beyond them. Now more than ever we need to be reminded that politics can be a noble, inspiring and civilising art. And if we want to understand todays political world, we need to understand the foundations of politics and its architects. This is the perfect guide to both. See more

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Weight: 356g
Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
Publication Date: 08 Aug 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781472961785

About Dr Graeme GarrardGraeme GarrardJames Bernard MurphyProfessor James Bernard Murphy

Graeme Garrard is the author of four books most recently The Return of the State: And Why It Is Essential For Our Health Wealth and Happiness (Yale University Press 2022). He has published many scholarly journal articles and popular essays in newspapers and magazines. Dr Garrard is Professor of Politics at Cardiff University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has taught at colleges and universities in Canada Britain France and the United States for 27 years including 12 years at the Harvard Summer School. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Oxford University. James Bernard Murphy is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College where he teaches political philosophy jurisprudence and ethics. Before becoming a professor Murphy worked as an urban planner in the City of New York where he was born. He received his Masters of City Planning from M.I.T. and his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Murphys scholarly books include The Moral Economy of Labor (1993) Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood (2020) and Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible (forthcoming 2024). He has also written for a wider audience in his books How to Think Politically (with Graeme Garrard 2019) Haunted by Paradise: A Philosopher's Quest for Biblical Answers to Key Moral Questions (2021) The Third Sword: On the Political Role of Prophets (forthcoming 2023) and in essays for the New York Times the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.