Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition

From the Reformation to the French Revolution

Tony Burns author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International

Published:19th Aug '20

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This second volume continues the story told in the first by focusing on the writings of a selection of seminal thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in England, the German speaking world and in France, ending with the debate around the French Revolution of 1789.

Tony Burns discusses the work of Thomas Hobbes, John Selden, Sir Matthew Hale, John Locke, Samuel Clarke, Johannes Althusius, Samuel Pufendorf, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Jean Barbeyrac, the anonymous author of Militaire philosophe, Claude Buffier, l’abbé de Saint-Pierre, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, l’abbé de Sieyès, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft and Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon. The author concludes with an analysis of the concept of administration in the writings of Saint-Simon, as a point of transition to the discussion of the themes of bureaucracy, technocracy and managerialism in the third volume.

In this second volume on the politics of recognition in social institutions, Tony Burns provides a masterful assessment of the ideas of thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is an outstanding contribution to the history of political thought, drawing our gaze away from a narrow focus on the state to those institutions in civil society, which are often so decisive in policy-making. I highly recommend this book! -- Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, University of Nottingham

ISBN: 9781786605696

Dimensions: 220mm x 154mm x 19mm

Weight: 386g

258 pages