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The Language of Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
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Hardback. This linguistic study outlines the fugitive nature of 17th-century political discourse and the pressures making its vocabulary susceptible to anachronistic reconstruction, and charts the changing relationships between the words "subject", "citizen", "resistance" and "rebellion". Series: Studies in Modern History. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; CFA; HBJD1; HBLH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of language,intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to reductionist pressures from better established fields of discourse. Further, there were strong pressures leading towards an indiscriminate and relatively general vocabulary, in turn facilitating the imposition of our anachronistic images of political theory. Part 2 focuses on a sub-set of the ... Read more
This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting point in modern theories of language,intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to reductionist pressures from better established fields of discourse. Further, there were strong pressures leading towards an indiscriminate and relatively general vocabulary, in turn facilitating the imposition of our anachronistic images of political theory. Part 2 focuses on a sub-set of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Modern History
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333579374
SKU
V9780333579374
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