Sidney: Court Maxims

ISBN-13: 9780521461757 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 260 str.

Algernon Sidney;Hans W. Blom (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam);Eco Haitsma-Mulier (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Opis

This remarkable expression of republican thought has never before been published. Algernon Sidney was among the most unrelenting republican partisans of the seventeenth century, and was executed for his opposition to Charles II. Written during Sidney's continental exile, the vivid Court Maxims was only recently rediscovered. The work presents a lively discussion about the principles of government and the practice of politics, articulating a vital tradition of republicanism in an absolutist age.

Spis treści

Preface, biographical and critical introduction etc.; Text (comprising 15 dialogues).