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The Politics of Locke's Philosophy: A Social Study of an Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Politics & Social Sciences

Wood, Neal

Philosophy

Univ. Of California Pr.

Comprehensive look at the early formation of capitalism in the UK and it's relation to the thought of John Locke.

John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism

Politics & Government

Cicero's Social and Political Thought

History

Ancient Civilizations

In this close examination of the social and political thought of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Neal Wood focuses on Cicero's conceptions of state and government, showing that he is the father of constitutionalism, the archetype of the politically conservative mind, and the first to reflect extensively on politics as an activity.

University of California Press

Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers―Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, Becon, Lever, and Thomas Smith, as well as the better-known More and Fortescue―laid the groundwork by fashioning an economic conception of the state in response to social, economic and political conditions of England. Wood's innovative study of these early Tudor thinkers, who upheld the status quo yet condemned widespread poverty and suffering, will interest historians, political scientists, and social and political theorists.

Foundations of Political Economy: Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society

Business & Money

Economics

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of capitalism and the modern nation-state, the establishment of an increasingly international economy, and the beginnings of modern colonialism. It was a turbulent time, marked by revolutionary developments in culture and religion, social conflict, political upheaval, and civil war. It was also an age of passionate debate and radical innovation in political theory and practice. Many contemporary political ideologies and concepts—ideas of the state, civil society, property, and individual rights, to name a few—can trace their ancestry to this era. Illuminating the roots of contemporary Western political thought, A Trumpet of Sedition surveys canonical texts by prominent thinkers such as Thomas More, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, radicals like the Levellers and Gerrard Winstanley and other less well known but important figures. In clear and lively prose, while situating them in their social and political context in new and original ways and contrasting the English case to others in Europe. By examining political ideas not merely as free-floating abstractions but as living encounters with the historical experience—the formation of the English state and the rise of agrarian capitalism—A Trumpet of Sedition illuminates the roots of contemporary Western political thought.

Wood, Ellen Meiksins

NYU Press

The US has been subjected to the ruthless and unrelenting tyranny of the world’s most advanced capitalism, permeating every aspect of American life. The chief difference from other tyrannies is its facelessness, its dependence on impersonal coercive power more than on direct violence and terror against its subjects. A frightening irony of this new tyranny, dissected by the distinguished historian of political thought Neal Wood, is that it is producing a degenerating society and a politics headed toward collapse. All world empires have decayed from within and eventually fallen. The new tyranny’s demise may long be hidden by a sophisticated technology and international armed might. The portents of social and political decay in the US are numerous. America is an inegalitarian class society with an ever-growing chasm separating a minuscule minority of the very rich from the poor and moderately well-off. Americans lack adequate universal medical care and their physical and mental health is declining. American society is a culture of rapidly proliferating violence, rampant consumerism, mindless entertainment, and freneticism, while its political culture, grounded in an eighteenth- century constitutionthat was never intended to create a democracyis ever more hollow and undemocratic. Tyranny in America, written in the spirit of Tom Paine and inspired by Karl Marx, scathingly addresses the chief maladies afflicting the US and forcefully argues that fundamental change is necessary if moral, political, and social implosion is to be avoided.

Tyranny in America: Capitalism and National Decay

Verso

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The Politics of Locke's Philosophy: A Social Study of an Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism

Cicero's Social and Political Thought

Cicero's Social and Political Thought

Foundations of Political Economy: Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society

John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism

John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism

A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688

A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688

Tyranny in America: Capitalism and National Decay