A textual introduction to social and political theory

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Author: Richard BellamyISBN: 9780719046391Publisher: Manchester University PressYear first published: 09 May 1996Pages: 352 Format: Paperback / softbackThis book offers a stimulati ng new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition's principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency in which to debate the problems facing modern societies. Each of the twelve chapters combines extracts from two (or in one case three) political philosophers on a key political concept with a commentary essay. Each chapter does more than just introduce the reader to the classics; it also explains, via the commentary essay, the key concepts of political debate, and the historical contexts which led the thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society. -- . Show more