TY - BOOK AU - Glendon,Mary Ann TI - The forum and the tower: how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt SN - 0199782458 AV - JA81 U1 - 320.9 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Oxford [u.a.] PB - Oxford Univ. Press KW - Political science KW - History KW - Scholars KW - Political activity KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Political aspects KW - Biografie KW - gnd-content N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1107/2011006021-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1107/2011006021-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1107/2011006021-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1107/2011006021-b.html UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/646404105.pdf ER -