Politics and Remembrance : Republican Themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville

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This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors."" Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. O...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Bruce James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527.
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527 > Political science.
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797 > Political science.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859 > Contributions in political science.
Republicanism.
Political participation.
Memory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Participation politique.
Republicanisme.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors."" Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these importan
Notas:Cover; CONTENTS.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (300 pages).
ISBN:9781400855032

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