In his introduction to these closely linked essays Professor Hart offers both an exposition and a critical assessment of some central issues in jurisprudence and political theory. Some of the essays touch on themes to which little attention has been paid, such as Bentham's identification of the forms of mysitification protecting the law from criticism; his relation to Beccaria;...(展开全部)

Political institutions are the main subject of political theory—or they ought to be. Making the case with his trademark forcefulness and intellectual aplomb, Jeremy Waldron argues in favor of reorienting the theory of politics toward the institutions and institutional principles of modern democracy and the mechanisms through which democratic ideals are achieved. Too many politi...(展开全部)

The history of political thought : a methodological inquiry Working on ideas in time Verbalizing a political act : towards a politics of speech Political ideas as historical events : political philosophers as historical actors The reconstruction of discourse : towards the historiography of political thought The concept of a language and the métier d'historien : some considerat...(展开全部)

John Pocock is arguably the most original and imaginative historian of ideas of modern times. Over the past half century he has created an audience for his work which is truly global, and he has marked the way in which the history of political thought is studied as deeply and personally as any historian of the period. The essays in this major new collection are selected from a ...(展开全部)

Jurisprudence is aimed at students new to the study of legal philosophy, also offering new ideas and perspectives that will be of interest to established scholars. Bix seeks to explain the often complex and difficult ideas in Jurisprudence clearly, but in a way that avoids distortion of the ideas through over-simplification. As well as introducing the reader to the fundamental ...(展开全部)

Jurisprudence is aimed at students new to the study of legal philosophy, while also offering new ideas and perspectives that will be of interest to established scholars. The author seeks to explain the often complex and difficult ideas in jurisprudence clearly, but in a way that avoids distortion of the ideas through oversimplification. As well as introducing the reader to the ...(展开全部)

These essays, which cover a wide range of topics, were written by Professor Hart between 1953 and 1981, and first appeared in a variety of different books and journals.

Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "metaethics" concerns certain second-order questions about ethics--questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts fit into reality. Analogously, the branch of contemporary philosophy of law that is often called "general jurispru...(展开全部)

Wolfgang J. Mommsen is one of the foremost Weberian scholars writing today. In this volume, a sequel to his monumental study Max Weber and German Politics , he provides succinct and incisive statements on current developments in the analysis of Weber's work. The book concentrates upon Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical conce...(展开全部)

In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures, Mitchell notes that we do not yet have a satisfactory theory of them. What we have is a variety of disciplines - semiotics, philosophical inquiries into representation, new departur...(展开全部)