Reconstructing the Classics: Political Theory from Plato to Marx (Chatham House Studies in Political Thinking)
Description
This work asserts the necessity of studying the works of seminal thinkers of the past in order to comprehend and articulate the fundamental theoretical assumptions that underlie all political behaviour. The author explains that what the classic thinkers offer to practicing political scientists and students alike are "conceptual options, alternatives to one another and to the unstated conventional wisdom of our cultural context", tools for the clarification of one's own thought and observations of contemporary phenomena. Portis provides a coherent framework for consideration o...
ISBN(s)
1566430496, 9781566430494
