Author: Jack Fruchtman
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422374665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Jack Fruchtman
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1090

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Author: David Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871697318
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Jack Fruchtman Jr.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9781422374665
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Price, Priestley, & the English Millennialist Tradition; The Political Millennialism of Price & Priestley; The Modes & Language of Republican Millennialism; The Country Program & Millennial Expectations; Revolution, the Millennium, & the Future Progress of the Mind; Necessity & Liberty: The Cosmic & Human Tension; Price, Priestley, & English Political Thought; Appendix; & Bibliography.

Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521425612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was arguably one of the most important and interesting English theorists to focus on the issue of political liberty during the English Enlightenment. His concept of freedom is of crucial importance to two of the major issues of his day: the right of dissenters to religious toleration, and the right of the American colonists to self-government. Despite the fundamental importance of both these themes in liberal political theory and their contemporary relevance to national self-determination, Priestley's writings lack a modern edition. This new collection will be the first to make accessible to students Priestleys' Essay on the First Principles and The Present State of Liberty, which encapsulate his political ideology. An introduction and notes, together with guides to further reading and key figures in the text provide the student with all the material necessary for approaching Priestley.

Author: Robert Hamerton-Kelly
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609170415
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is "revelation" or "unveiling," the basis from which renowned theologian René Girard builds his own view of Biblical apocalypse. Properly understood, Girard explains, Biblical apocalypse has nothing to do with a wrathful or vengeful God punishing his unworthy children, and everything to do with a foretelling of what future humans are making for themselves now that they have devised the instruments of global self-destruction. In this volume, some of the major thinkers about the interpretation of politics and religion— including Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Carl Schmitt— are scrutinized by some of today's most qualified scholars, all of whom are thoroughly versed in Girard’s groundbreaking work. Including an important new essay by Girard, this volume enters into a philosophical debate that challenges the bona fides of philosophy itself by examining three supremely important philosopher of the twentieth century. It asks how we might think about politics now that the attacks of 9/11 have shifted our intellectual foundations and what the outbreak of rabid religion might signify for international politics.

Author: Morton D. Paley
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191584681
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but in their various ways the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley - question and even at times undermine the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. No matter how confidently the sequence of apocalypse and millennium seems to be affirmed in some of the major works of the period, the issue is always in doubt: the fear that millennium may not ensue emerges as a significant, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the period. Related to it is the tension in Romantic poetry between conflicting models of history itself: history as teleology, developing towards end time and millennium, and history as purposeless cycle. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, partly through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and partly through a close examination of the poems themselves.

Author: C. Burdon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230379753
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The Apocalypse of John is perhaps the most alluring and dangerous text in any scripture. This study looks at English responses to it in political pamphlets and scholarly exegesis, in poetry and preaching and visual art. Those who set out to find enduring meaning in the book failed. Yet in the post-Christian re-writings of Revelation by Shelley and Blake, John's own dynamic of unveiling comes to life, subverting the structures of power and reading built on the visions of Patmos.

Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521409698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Richard Price (1723-1791) was an eminent Welsh philosopher and Dissenting Minister who won considerable fame as a supporter of the American and French Revolutions. The volume is comprised of his most important pamphlets (1759-1789).

Author: H.T. Dickinson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134924659X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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This challenging and original study examines the most important aspects of popular political culture in eighteenth-century Britain. The first part explores the way the British people could influence existing political institutions or could exploit their existing powers, by looking at the role of the people in parliamentary elections, in a wide range of pressure groups, in their local urban communities, and in popular demonstrations. The second part shows how the British people became increasingly politicised during the eighteenth century and how they tried to shape or defend their political world.