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  • Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader

    de Perez Zagorin ...
    "An engrossing intellectual appreciation of the most important and most difficult historian in the western cultural tradition." —Tom Palaima, Times Higher Education SupplementWhy does Thucydides continue to matter today? Perez Zagorin answers this question by examining Thucydides' landmark History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the great classics of Western civilization. This history, Zagorin ... Leer más

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  • Francis Bacon

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    Francis Bacon (1561-1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world. He also led a remarkably varied and dramatic life as a philosopher, writer, lawyer, courtier, and statesman. Although there has been much recent scholarship on individual aspects of Bacon's career, Perez Zagorin's is the ... Leer más

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  • A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution

    de Perez Zagorin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in England
    A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954) examines the large range of political doctrines which played their part in the English revolution – a period when modern democratic ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645, when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution’s wider implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to power, is ... Leer más

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  • How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West

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    Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely ... Leer más

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  • Hobbes and the Law of Nature

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    This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains one of the most challenging and controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the interpretation of many of his ideas, particularly his views about natural law and natural right ... Leer más

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  • The Court and the Country

    The Beginning of the English Revolution

    de Perez Zagorin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in England
    The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various factors – political, social and religious – that produced the revolution and conditioned its course. It explains the revolution primarily as a result of the breakdown of the unity of the governing class ... Leer más

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