Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars

ISBN-13: 9780198206835 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str.

Arihiro Fukuda

Opis

This book places the political thought of mid-seventeenth-century England within the context of the English civil wars and offers fresh insights into the principles on which two of the great figures of political thought, Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington, constructed their main arguments. Arihiro Fukuda shows Harrington to have been, no less than Hobbes, a theorist of absolute sovereignty. But where Hobbes repudiated the mixed governments of classical antiquity, Harrington was convinced that mixed government, far from being the enemy of absolute sovereignty, was its essential foundation. Fukuda shows how Harrington, in recasting Hobbes's thought, achieved an originality and profundity as striking as his rivals.

Recenzje

Fukuda displays historical and analytic acumen in a work that is admirably clear, concise and provocative. Those who take seriously the republican and (or) the social-contract traditions will likely find Fukuda's ideas instructive and disagree with some or all of them.

O autorze

Please note that Fukuda uses the title `Mr', not Professor