Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning TolerationTwo of Locke’s most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays combined in an outstanding volume "The new standard edition of Locke for students of political theory. Dunn, Grant, and Shapiro combine authoritative historical scholarship and contemporary political theory to give us Locke for our time."—Elisabeth H. Ellis, Texas A&M University Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration remain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts appear in this volume, accompanied by interpretive essays by three prominent Locke scholars. Ian Shapiro’s introduction places Locke’s political writings in historical and biographical context. John Dunn explores both the intellectual context in which Locke wrote the Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration and the major interpretive controversies surrounding their meaning. Ruth Grant offers a comprehensive discussion of Locke’s views on women and the family, and Shapiro contributes an essay on the democratic elements of Locke’s political theory. Taken together, the texts and essays in this volume offer invaluable insights into the history of ideas and the enduring influence of Locke’s political thought. |
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... Essays Measuring Locke's Shadow 257 John Dunn John Locke on Women and the Family 286 Ruth W. Grant John Locke's Democratic Theory 309 Ian Shapiro Index 341 Introduction : Reading Locke Today IAN SHAPIRO Old books are. Contents. Contents.
John Locke Ian Shapiro. Introduction : Reading Locke Today IAN SHAPIRO Old books are read for many reasons . Intrinsic ... Locke's mature writings about politics , collected here , are worth reading for all these reasons at least . They ...
... Locke's argument . The received view of Locke as the philosopher of the Revolution and the Two Treatises as his manifesto has been conclusively debunked by Peter Laslett and Richard Ashcraft who established that the bulk of it had in ...
... Locke's political texts are continuing sources of scholarly controversy , as are the political implications people draw from them . In our own generation Locke's texts have been seen as repositories of the core ideas of bourgeois ...
... Locke's political views evolved considerably over the course of his lifetime . Indeed , what is most remarkable about the young Locke given the tenor of his mature political writings is how little interested he seems to have been in ...
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