Wood Ellen Meiksins
Wood Ellen Meiksins - Citizens To Lords A Social History Of Western Political Thought From Antiquity To The Late Middle Ages - Paperback
Wood Ellen Meiksins - Citizens To Lords A Social History Of Western Political Thought From Antiquity To The Late Middle Ages - Paperback
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Description: In this groundbreaking work Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history a significant departure not only from the standard abstract history of ideas but also from other contextual methods. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon while largely the work of members or clients of dominant classes was shaped by complex interactions among proprietors labourers and states. Western political theory Wood argues owes much of its vigour and also many ambiguities to these complex and often contradictory relations. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato Aristotle Aeschylus and Sophocles through the Roman Republic of Cicero and the Empire of St Paul and St Augustine to the medieval world of Averroes Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham Citizens to Lords offers a rich dynamic exploration of thinkers and ideas that have indelibly stamped our modern world.
Title: Citizens To Lords A Social History Of Western Political Thought From Antiquity To The Late Middle Ages
Author(s): Wood Ellen Meiksins
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844677061
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Category: Political Science & Theory
Description: In this groundbreaking work Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history a significant departure not only from the standard abstract history of ideas but also from other contextual methods. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon while largely the work of members or clients of dominant classes was shaped by complex interactions among proprietors labourers and states. Western political theory Wood argues owes much of its vigour and also many ambiguities to these complex and often contradictory relations. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato Aristotle Aeschylus and Sophocles through the Roman Republic of Cicero and the Empire of St Paul and St Augustine to the medieval world of Averroes Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham Citizens to Lords offers a rich dynamic exploration of thinkers and ideas that have indelibly stamped our modern world.
Title: Citizens To Lords A Social History Of Western Political Thought From Antiquity To The Late Middle Ages
Author(s): Wood Ellen Meiksins
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844677061
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Category: Political Science & Theory
