Hume's Politics (eBook)

Coordination and Crisis in the History of England

Andrew Sabl (Autor)

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2012
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4552-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. Andrew Sabl argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems. Dynamic coordination, as employed in Hume's work, explains how conventions of political authority arise, change, adapt to new social and economic conditions, improve or decay, and die. Sabl shows how Humean constitutional conservatism need not hinder--and may in fact facilitate--change and improvement in economic, social, and cultural life. He also identifies how Humean liberalism can offer a systematic alternative to neo-Kantian approaches to politics and liberal theory. At once scholarly and accessibly written, Hume's Politics builds bridges between political theory and political science. It treats issues of concern to both fields, including the prehistory of political coordination, the obstacles that must be overcome in order for citizens to see themselves as sharing common political interests, the close and counterintuitive relationship between governmental authority and civic allegiance, the strategic ethics of political crisis and constitutional change, and the ways in which the biases and injustices endemic to executive power can be corrected by legislative contestation and debate.

Autor

Andrew Sabl is professor of public policy and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2012
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Alteration • Annette Baier • arbitrariness • authority • Causality • chivalry • citizen allegiance • civic allegiance • Civil disobedience • Common Interests • Consent theory • Constitution • constitutional conservatism • Constitutionalism • constitutional law • Convention • Coordination • Coordination Theory • Corruption • Criticism • David Hume • de facto • deference • de jure • Deliberation • demagogue • Democracy • despotism • Determination • Direct Democracy • Donald Livingston • Emergency Powers • Equality • ethics • Explanation • Extortion • feudalism • First principle • foreign policy • formal theory • Forms of Government • fundamental conventions • Good government • Governance • Government • governmental authority • government office • greatness • Great Power • hereditary monarchy • Hobbesian doctrine • honour • Human Endeavors • Humean liberalism • Humean politics • Ideology • Institution • Irony • Kantian liberalism • Leadership • legislative assemblies • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • legitimate rebellion • Liberalism • Liberal Theory • Liberty • Magna Carta • mixed government • Modernity • Monopoly • Morality • Natural and legal rights • Niccolò Machiavelli • Nobility • Obedience (human behavior) • Order • Oxford University Press • Parliaments • perfect government • pessimism • Petition of Right • Philosopher • Philosophy • Political convention • political conventions • political coordination • Political Philosophy • Political power • Political Science • political strategy • Political System • Political Theorists • political theory • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • Potentate • Power • practical politics • Precedent • Prejudice • Prerogative • Principle • private law • public goods • public law • radical revolutions • Rational Choice Theory • Regime • Religion • rhetoric • royal prerogative • Rule of Law • Ruler • Scottish Enlightenment • Self-Interest • ship money • social change • Social Contract • Social Science • Sovereignty • State-Building • State of nature • State (polity) • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Tax • The English Constitution • Theft • The History of England (Hume) • theory • The Other Hand • Thomas Hobbes • Toleration • treatise • Treaty • tyranny • Vassal • Vested interest (communication theory) • Wealth • Whigs (British political party)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4552-1 / 1400845521
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4552-1 / 9781400845521