Political judgement : essays for John Dunn /
From Plato to Max Weber, the attempt to understand political judgement took the form of a struggle to define the relationship between politics and morals. This book by leading international scholars in the fields of history, philosophy and politics restores the subject to a place at the very centre...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, Ã2009. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Richard Bourke and Raymond Geuss
- pt. I. character of political judgement
- 1. What is political judgement? / Raymond Geuss
- 2. Sticky judgement and the role of rhetoric / Victoria McGeer and Philip Pettit
- 3. Theory and practice: the revolution in political judgement / Richard Bourke
- pt. II. Trust, judgement and consent
- 4. On trusting the judgement of our rulers / Quentin Skinner
- 5. Adam Smith's history of law and government as political theory / Istvan Hont
- 6. Marxism in translation: critical reflections on Indian radical thought / Sudipta Kaviraj
- pt. III. Rationality and judgement
- 7. Pericles' unreason / Geoffrey Hawthorn
- 8. Accounting for human actions: individual agency and political judgement in Montaigne's Essais / Biancamaria Fontana
- 9. Nehru's judgement / Sunil Khilnani
- pt. IV. Democracy and modern political judgement
- 10. Democracy, equality and redistribution / Adam Przeworski
- 11. Democracy and terrorism / Richard Tuck.