Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Peter Laslett.

464 S.; 21,5 cm; kart. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Gutes Ex.; Einband etwas berieben. - Englisch. - Peter Laslett's edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, and has been read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. Dr Laslett demonstrated that the version usually cited was in no way a representation of that 'text for posterity' Locke left behind, and exhaustive analysis of Locke's private papers and personal library caused Dr Laslett radically to alter the received notion that the Two Treatises were in any sense a rationalisation of the events of 1688: Locke's texts were rather a call for a revolution yet to come. For publication in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Peter Laslett has revised his own amended second edition (1970) of the Two Treatises, up-dating the bibliography and engaging with many of the refinements generated by recent advances in Locke scholarship. A guide to further reading and a fully reset and reworked introduction should enable further generations of students to come to an improved understanding of two of the central texts in western political thought. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Foreword ---- INTRODUCTION ---- I The Book ---- II Locke the man and Locke the writer ---- III Two Treatises of Government and the Revolution of 1688 ---- IV Locke and Hobbes ---- V The social and political theory of Two Treatises of Government ---- Addendum: the dating of the composition of Two Treatises ---- Editorial note ---- THE TEXT ---- Preface ---- First Treatise ---- Second Treatise ---- Suggested reading ---- Bibliography ---- Index. ISBN 0521357306