The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought - Image 1

£36.25

Princeton University Press The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought

Name: The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought
Brand: Princeton University Press
Price: 36.25 GBP
Availability: InStock

Social & Cultural

Price History & Forecast

Last 82 days • 82 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 82 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £36 (82 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £36 - £36

Price levels: 1 different prices over 82 days

Description

In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, he brings into focus how this major vision of liberty developed between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. In his framework, celebrated political writers, including John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green pursue the claim that freedom is best understood as a form of responsible agency or propriety, and they do so by reconciling key moral and philosophical claims with classical and contemporary political theory. Their approach broadly assumes that only those persons who appropriately regulate their conduct can be thought of as free and responsible. At the same time, however, they recognize that such internal forms of self-propriety must be judged within the wider context of social and political life. Kelly shows how the intellectual and practical demands of such a synthesis require these great writers to consider freedom as part of a broader set of arguments about the nature of personhood, the potentially irrational impact of the passions, and the obstinate problems of individual and political judgement. By exploring these relationships, "The Propriety of Liberty" not only revises the intellectual history of modern political thought, but also sheds light on contemporary debates about freedom and agency.

Key Features

New

Mint Condition

Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon

Guaranteed packaging

No quibbles returns

Product Specifications

Brand: Princeton University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0691143137
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 November 2010
Listed Since: 16 February 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Princeton University Press The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Liberty

Liberty: Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives

Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind: Main Currents in American Thought, Volume I: 1

Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty

Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism

The Freedom of Peaceful Action: On the Origin of Individual Rights

The Power in the People

Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy (The Shaftesbury Papers series)

The Rise of European Liberalism

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England

Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness

Habermas's Public Sphere: A Critique

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England

Determinism and Freewill: Anthony Collins’ A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty: 18 (Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor, 18)

Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty: Essays in Social Philosophy (Princeton Series of Collected Essays)

Unjust Authority

Freedom and the Human Person (Studies in Philosophy & the History of Philosophy)

Freedom in Economics: New Perspectives in Normative Analysis (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Liberty and Security (Themes for the 21st Century)

Les droits du genre humain : la liberté en France et en Angleterre, 1159-1793 (Tome 2)

Individualism and the Social Order: The Social Element in Liberal Thought (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

The Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Concepts and Ideas (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)

The English Novel in History 1700-1780