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The forum and the tower how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt Mary Ann Glendon

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2011Description: XIII, 261 S 25 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 0199782458
  • 9780199782451
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online-Ausg.: The forum and the towerDDC classification:
  • 320.9 22
LOC classification:
  • JA81
Other classification:
  • 3,6
  • MB 3100
  • 89.01
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 2nd floor – Closed Collection E (Executive) E:JA81 .G56 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-1556

Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index. - Plato in the real city -- Marcus Tullius Cicero: politics in a dying republic -- Justinian, Tribonian, and Irnerius: how statesmen and scholars rescued Roman law (twice) -- Advising the prince: the enigma of Machiavelli -- The scholar vs. the statesman: Thomas Hobbes and Edward Coke -- John Locke: the don heard around the world -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: political philosophy without politics -- Edmund Burke: man on a tightrope -- Tocqueville the politician -- Max Weber: scholarship and politics in the disenchanted world -- Oliver Wendell Holmes: the tradition-haunted iconoclast -- The first lady and the philosopher: Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Malik, and the human rights project

Plato in the real city -- Marcus Tullius Cicero: politics in a dying republic -- Justinian, Tribonian, and Irnerius: how statesmen and scholars rescued Roman law (twice) -- Advising the prince: the enigma of Machiavelli -- The scholar vs. the statesman: Thomas Hobbes and Edward Coke -- John Locke: the don heard around the world -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: political philosophy without politics -- Edmund Burke: man on a tightrope -- Tocqueville the politician -- Max Weber: scholarship and politics in the disenchanted world -- Oliver Wendell Holmes: the tradition-haunted iconoclast -- The first lady and the philosopher: Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Malik, and the human rights project.

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