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

Author/creator Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxiii, 261 p. ; 25 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011006021
ISBN9780199782451 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0199782458 (hbk.)

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