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Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition Student edition


Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition Student edition

Paperback by Locke, John; Laslett, Peter

Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition

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ISBN:
9780521357302
Publication Date:
28 Oct 1988
Edition/language:
Student edition / English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
478 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 25 Apr 2024
Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition

Description

This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys advances in Locke scholarship since publication of the second edition. In the introduction, Dr Laslett shows that the Two Treatises were not a rationalisation of the events of 1688 but rather a call for a revolution yet to come.

Contents

Foreword; Part I. Introduction: 1. The book; 2. Locke the man and Locke the writer; 3. Two Treatises of Government and the revolution of 1688; 4. Locke and Hobbes; 5. The social and political theory of Two Treatises of Government; 6. Addendum: the dating of the composition of Two Treatises; Editorial note; Part II. The Text: 7. Preface; 8. First treatise; 9. Second treatise; Suggested reading; Bibliography; Index.

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