Time, history, and political thought / edited by John Robertson.

Other author Robertson, John, 1951- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Description330 pages
Subjects

Contents Introduction : time, hstory, and political thought / John Robertson -- Out of time? : eternity, Christology, and Justinianic law / Caroline Humfress -- Historicity and universality in Roman law before 1600 / Magnus Ryan -- 'The logic of authority and the logic of evidence' / George Garnett -- Christian time and the commonwealth in early modern political thought / Sarah Mortimer -- Politic history / Kinch Hoekstra -- Hobbes on the theology and politics of time / Quentin Skinner -- The recourse to sacred history before the Enlightenment : Spinoza's theological political treatise / John Robertson -- Law, chronology, and Scottish conjectural history / Aaron Garrett -- Civilization and perfectibility : conflicting views of the history of mankind? / Silvia Sebastiani -- Kant on history, or theodicy for mortal gods / Chris Meckstroth -- Law's histories in post-Napoleonic Germany / Charlotte Johann -- After historicism : the politics of time and history in twentieth-century Germany / Waseem Yaqoob -- The right to rebel : history and universality in the political thought of the Algerian Revolution / Emma Stone Mackinnon.
Abstract "Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2023000057
ISBN9781009289368
ISBN1009289365
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