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Kirstie M. McClure - Judging Rights - 9780801431111 - V9780801431111
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Judging Rights

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Description for Judging Rights Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 742.

Kirstie McClure offers a major reinterpretation of John Locke's thought that is important not only for the light it sheds on Locke, but also for the questions it raises about liberalism and rights-based theories of politics. Sensitive to the range of interpretative and political issues that Locke's work raises, McClure's analysis is impressive for its balance and subtlety, and for her command of the enormous literature on Locke.

Between the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution, between Two Tracts on Government of 1660 and Two Treatises on Government of 1690, Locke subjected the idea of civil power to increasing scrutiny. In ... Read more

While Locke may well have been a constitutionalist, his theoretical concerns were far broader than any legal or constitutional interpretation of his work might suggest. To make this claim, she explains, is to deny neither the significance of "rights" nor the importance of institutions and consent in Locke's theoretical production. Rather, it is to insist that such themes are merely parts of a more comprehensive theoretical project, the focus of which, bluntly stated in the Second Treatise, was "to understand Political Power right."

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801431111
SKU
V9780801431111
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Kirstie M. McClure
Kirstie M. McClure is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Humanities Center at the Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews for Judging Rights
Judging Rights presents an understanding of Lockean thought that bridges the gaps between apparent contradictions and inconsistencies.... McClure's Locke offers a theistic but not a scriptural point of view. His works, whether Tracts or Treatises, line out the human position in a hierarchical order of creation. Humans are subject to God's law but also adopt the law to guide their ... Read more

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