
The Individual in Political Theory and Practice
Janet Coleman(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. June 1996
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-0-19-820549-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European societies evolved into increasingly centralised national states, there emerged a range of religious and secular discourses which expressed the autonomy of individual agents not only as political subjects but also as private selves.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
798 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-820549-4 (9780198205494)
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Person
Editor
Professor of GovernmentProfessor of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science