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Title: A TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0719046394
ISBN 13: 9780719046391
Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 9 May, 1996
Pages: 352
Description: This text offers a fresh approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from political classics with essays offering a commentary upon them.
Synopsis: This text offers a fresh approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from political classics with essays offering a commentary upon them. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition's principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency in which to debate the problems facing modern societies. Each of the 12 chapters combines extracts for two (or in one case three) political philosophers on a key political concept with a commentary essay. Each chapter explains the key concepts of political debate, and the historical contexts which led the thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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