The forum and the tower : how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt /

The Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. For all the talk about the remoteness of ivory tower ideas from 'the real world, ' it is the case that ideas do in fact have consequences. In recent US history...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Political science > History.
Scholars > Political activity > History.
Learning and scholarship > Political aspects > History.
Savants > Activité politique > Histoire.
Savoir et érudition > Aspect politique > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Learning and scholarship > Political aspects.
Political science.
Statsvetenskap > historia.
Forskare > politisk verksamhet > historia.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Introduction; 1. Plato in the Real City; 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero: Politics in a Dying Republic; 3. Justinian, Tribonian, and Irnerius: How Statesmen and Scholars Rescued Roman Law (Twice); 4. Advising the Prince: The Enigma of Machiavelli; 5. The Scholar vs. The Statesman: Thomas Hobbes and Edward Coke; 6. John Locke: The Don Heard Round the World; 7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Political Philosophy without Politics; 8. Edmund Burke: Man on a Tightrope; 9. Tocqueville the Politician; 10. Max Weber: Scholarship and Politics in the Disenchanted World; 11. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Tradition-Haunted Iconoclast12. The First Lady and the Philosopher: Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Malik, and the Human Rights Project; EPILOGUE; NOTES; INDEX.

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