Political Obligation in its Historical Context: Essays in Political Theory

ISBN: 9780521891592 出版年：1980 页码：367 John Dunn Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Introduction Part I. The Historicity of the Question: 2. The identity of the history of ideas 3. Consent in the political theory of John Locke 4. The politics of Locke in England and America in the eighteenth century Part II. The Historicity of the Answers: 5. Practising history and social science on 'realist' assumptions 6. From democracy to representation: an interpretation of a Ghanaian election 7. 'Hoc signo victor eris': representation, allegiance and obligation in the politics of Ghana and Sri Lanka 8. Democracy unretrieved, or the political theory of Professor Macpherson 9. The success and failure of modern revolutions Part III. Conclusion: 10. Political obligations and political possibilities Notes Index.