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Great Books, Bad Arguments : Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto /

Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being? In this lively and pr...

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Autor principal: Runciman, W. G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Edición:Course Book
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