Priestley: Political Writings

Priestley: Political Writings
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1993-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521425612
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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was arguably one of the most important and interesting English theorists to focus on the issue of political liberty during the English Enlightenment. His concept of freedom is of crucial importance to two of the major issues of his day: the right of dissenters to religious toleration, and the right of the American colonists to self-government. Despite the fundamental importance of both these themes in liberal political theory and their contemporary relevance to national self-determination, Priestley's writings lack a modern edition. This new collection will be the first to make accessible to students Priestleys' Essay on the First Principles and The Present State of Liberty, which encapsulate his political ideology. An introduction and notes, together with guides to further reading and key figures in the text provide the student with all the material necessary for approaching Priestley.

Priestley: Political Writings

Priestley: Political Writings
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 1993-06-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521415408
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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was arguably the most important English theorist to focus on the issue of political liberty during the English Enlightenment. His concept of freedom is of crucial importance to two of the major issues of his day: the right of dissenters to religious toleration, and the right of the American colonists to self-government. Priestley's writings lack a modern edition and this new collection will be the first to render accessible his Essay on First Principles, The Present State of Liberty and the Letter of Advice. An introduction and notes, and guides to further reading and key figures in the text provide the student with all the material necessary for approaching Priestley.

Political Writings

Political Writings
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1999
Genre: Political science
ISBN: 9780521648417
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The key writings of the author of the Declaration of Independence are presented here in a clear and accessible format. The texts are supported by a concise introduction, suggestions for further reading and short biographies.

Priestley's Writings on Philosophy, Science, and Politics

Priestley's Writings on Philosophy, Science, and Politics
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1965
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:
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"Philosophy, science, politics, history, and theology -- the range of Joseph Priestley's intellect was wide, and its current ran deep. Priestley (1733-1804) is noted equally as a founder of modern chemistry, a discoverer of oxygen, a dissenter against religious and political intolerance, and as a defender of civil liberties. This unique, one-volume selection from Priestley's voluminous writings provides a full and coherent picture of his thought in all areas. Selections have been made from his The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, Lectures on History and General Policy, An Essay on the First Principles of Government, Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, The History and Present State of Electricity, etc. In his Introduction Professor Passmore relates Priestley's various interests one to another and stresses the pertinence of his work today. He has also provided a selected bibliography of Priestley's writings and of the writings about him."--The publisher

William Penn: Political Writings

William Penn: Political Writings
Author: Andrew R. Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108497128
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A fully annotated scholarly edition of the political writings of William Penn (1644-1718), an influential theorist of liberty of conscience.

Spencer: Political Writings

Spencer: Political Writings
Author: Herbert Spencer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521437400
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This book places Spencer's famous argument for political individualism in his The Man versus the State alongside his early The Proper Sphere of Government, out of which, after due gestation, emerged not only The Man versus the State but also Social Status and his all-embracing theory of evolution. Both are valuable as unyielding statements of anti-state political theory and as sources of perceptive comments on political events of the times. An introduction sets them in their context and examines their main themes. The book will be of interest to both undergraduates and specialists in politics, political theory, social policy, sociology and history.

Bayle: Political Writings

Bayle: Political Writings
Author: Pierre Bayle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2000-08-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521476775
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Pierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ideas of Voltaire (who acclaimed it for its candour on such subjects as atheism, obscenity and sexual conduct), Hume, Montesquieu and Rousseau. Banned in France on first publication in 1697, Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique became a bestseller and ran into several editions and translations. Sally L. Jenkinson's masterly edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's monumental work (which ran to seven million words). This is volume selects political writings from Bayle's work and presents its author as a specifically political thinker. Sally L. Jenkinson's authoritative translation, careful selection of texts, and lucid introduction will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history and French studies.

Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings
Author: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2003-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521633505
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first ever modern edition of her Divers Orations on English social and political life, together with a new student-friendly rendition of her imaginary voyage, A New World called the Blazing World. Susan James explains the allusions made in this classic text, and directs readers to the many intellectual debates with which Cavendish engages. Together these two works reveal the character and scope of Margaret Cavendish's political thought. She emerges as a singular and probing writer, who simultaneously upholds a conservative social and political order and destabilises it through her critical and unresolved observations about natural philosophy, scientific institutions, religion, and the relations between men and women.