Political theory and practice : eight essays on a theme / Wendell John Coats, Jr.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coats, Wendell John
Language:English
Published: Selinsgrove [Pa.] : London ; Cranbury, NJ : Susquehanna University Press ; Associated University Presses, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Political science.
Physical Description:156 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • On the actualization of the best regimes in Plato's political dialogues
  • Aristotle's two "best" regimes
  • Oakeshott's Descartes, Vico's Descartes
  • Machiavelli as classical Roman rhetorician?
  • Locke's individualism and Descartes's method
  • Karl Marx : theory and practice as revolutionary rhetoric
  • Michael Oakeshott and the poetic character of human activity
  • Reflections on the political "theory-practice" problem.