Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning TolerationTwo of Locke’s most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays combined in an outstanding volume "The new standard edition of Locke for students of political theory. Dunn, Grant, and Shapiro combine authoritative historical scholarship and contemporary political theory to give us Locke for our time."—Elisabeth H. Ellis, Texas A&M University Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration remain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts appear in this volume, accompanied by interpretive essays by three prominent Locke scholars. Ian Shapiro’s introduction places Locke’s political writings in historical and biographical context. John Dunn explores both the intellectual context in which Locke wrote the Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration and the major interpretive controversies surrounding their meaning. Ruth Grant offers a comprehensive discussion of Locke’s views on women and the family, and Shapiro contributes an essay on the democratic elements of Locke’s political theory. Taken together, the texts and essays in this volume offer invaluable insights into the history of ideas and the enduring influence of Locke’s political thought. |
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... Theory at the University of Cambridge. Ruth W. Grant is Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Introduction ...
... Locke's Shadow 257 John Dunn John Locke on Women and the Family 286 Ruth W. Grant John Locke's Democratic Theory 309 Ian Shapiro Index 341 Introduction : Reading Locke Today IAN SHAPIRO Old books are. Contents. Contents.
... theory , it is usually because they are thought to illuminate enduring fundamentals of political associa- tion . Sometimes they gain additional notoriety when they move people , individually or collectively , to political action . John ...
... theory . In the 1650s his principal interest was in medicine , partly as a result of his interactions with Robert Boyle ( 1627–1691 ) and others at the Oxford Experimental Philosophy Club . His early work with Boyle was on the human ...
... theory developed in the Two Treatises : his doctrine that all legitimate politi- cal authority is rooted in the consent of the governed . It has been clear since John Dunn's seminal study of the religious foun- dations of Lockean ...
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