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Hume´s Politics: Coordination and Crisis in the History of England
Andrew Sabl
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Description for Hume´s Politics: Coordination and Crisis in the History of England
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Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. Andrew Sabl argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems. Dynamic coordination, as employed in Hume's work, explains how conventions of political authority arise, change, adapt to new social and economic conditions, improve or decay, and die. Sabl shows how Humean constitutional conservatism need not hinder--and ... Read more
Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. Andrew Sabl argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems. Dynamic coordination, as employed in Hume's work, explains how conventions of political authority arise, change, adapt to new social and economic conditions, improve or decay, and die. Sabl shows how Humean constitutional conservatism need not hinder--and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691134208
SKU
V9780691134208
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About Andrew Sabl
Andrew Sabl is professor of public policy and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics (Princeton).
Reviews for Hume´s Politics: Coordination and Crisis in the History of England
"Andrew Sabl has written an exceptionally fine overview of David Hume's History of England... The History into which Hume poured such brilliance remains an undiscovered continent... But with Sabl's full-length study, we can say that it has finally been mapped."
David Walsh, Perspectives on Politics "David Hume's History of England, a long-neglected classic of political philosophy, has recently become the object ... Read more
David Walsh, Perspectives on Politics "David Hume's History of England, a long-neglected classic of political philosophy, has recently become the object ... Read more