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The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Jason Edwards

    1. School of Politics and Sociology, London, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Reformation and the Radical Attitude: Luther, Müntzer and Calvin

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 6-33

  4. The Politicisation of Man in the Seventeenth Century: The Levellers and Hobbes

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 34-62

  5. Enlightenment, Law and Nature: Montesquieu and Rousseau

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 63-93

  6. Conservatism and Radicalism: Burke and Paine

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 94-123

  7. Democracy and Revolution: Tocqueville and Marx

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 124-153

  8. Crisis and Decision: Lenin and Schmitt

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 154-182

  9. Conclusion: The Radical Attitude and Utopia

    • Jason Edwards
    Pages 183-184

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-208
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About this book

The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of modernity that can be best described as radical. First appearing in the sixteenth century, the attitude is best seen not as a coherent ideology or tradition but as a series of conceptual resources that continue to inform political discourse in the present.

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  • School of Politics and Sociology, London, UK

    Jason Edwards

About the author

JASON EDWARDS is Lecturer in Politics, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, London, UK.

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