Origins of Legislative Sovereignty and the Legislative State: Volume Five, Modern Origins, Developments, and Perspectives against the Background of Machiavellism^LBook II: Modern Major Isms (17th-18th Centuries)

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Focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries, this volume centers around six ideological isms that the author seeks to exploit as well as deconstruct. The six isms are absolutism, constitutionalism, rationalism, empiricism, liberalism, and conservatismall of which have long presented problematical constructs that the author seeks to de-construct. The unusually broad range of famous thinkers studied here includes Hobbes, Locke, Richelieu, Bossuet, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Smith, Burke, and various French revolutionaries. Although the focus here is historical, the contemporary import of the subject is often brought out.

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It is politically, philosophically and historically important. It is thoughtful and informed reading for the student of the human condition. I highly recommend it.-The European Studies Journal
"It is politically, philosophically and historically important. It is thoughtful and informed reading for the student of the human condition. I highly recommend it."-The European Studies Journal

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A. LONDON FELL has a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at New York and Fordham Universities.