A History of Western Political Thought. Dr J S Mcclelland, J. S. McClelland

A History of Western Political Thought



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A History of Western Political Thought Dr J S Mcclelland, J. S. McClelland ebook pdf
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Page: 809
ISBN: 0415119618, 9780415119610

From Library Journal

This self-avowedly "old-fashioned...ac-count of great texts" begins with the Greeks and closes with modern reactions to liberalism; Hegel and Marx; "irrationalists" Pareto, Michels, LeBon, Freud, and the Fascists; and "anti-rationalists" Maurras and Oakeshotte. In a brief epilog, McClelland (politics, Univ. of Nottingham, England) comments on the collapse of dialog in our Nietzschean age. The author intentionally skimps on scholarly apparatus: there are few notes, bibliographies are brief, and citations from original texts are few and far between. And therein lies the rub. Although McClelland's insights are often good, at times even original, he fails to call in the thinkers' words to support his own arguments about their ideas and intent. Not until Chapter 11 (on Hobbes) does he even quote a thinker he discusses; half of the chapters are devoid of citation. The book reads like a set of lectures waiting for the illustrations that would flesh it out. Without these illustrations, the book is fatally flawed. Not recommended.?David Keymer, California State Univ., StanislausCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"A real tour de force of a book that ranges from the Greeks to Michael Oakeshott. Brilliantly written and spiced with witty asides." -- Network"An easy, enjoyable and stimulating piece of work ... [It is] the idiosyncratic character of the text and the opportunities to challenge it on a variety of issues that will make it popular and exciting." -- Tim Tilton, Indiana University"Homeric in its scope and scale, this is an epic work of intellectual history...McClelland lets political ideas sing, dazzle, dominate, then give way to the next generation or fight back over new ground. The pitch and passion of his style, his enormous learning and talent for synthesizing and explaining difficult ideas, are masterly. I knew politics can be exciting, but until I read A History of Western Political Thought I never knew how the various theories, ideologies and positions European history has produced can also be exciting and entertaining.." -- Tom Paulin, poet and playwright"The task that McClelland has set himself is of course daunting. . . . But he goes about the matter with great gusto, and is always lucid and a pleasure to read--I have no doubt that the book would interest many people." -- Roger Scruton



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