Europe, what Europe?
Colin Kidd: J.G.A. Pocock, 6 November 2008
The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 344 pp., £18.99, September 2005,9780521616454 Show More
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 344 pp., £18.99, September 2005,
Barbarism and Religion. Vol. III: The First Decline and Fall
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 527 pp., £19.99, October 2005,0 521 67233 3 Show More
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 527 pp., £19.99, October 2005,
Barbarism and Religion. Vol. IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 372 pp., £17.99, February 2008,978 0 521 72101 1 Show More
by J.G.A. Pocock.
Cambridge, 372 pp., £17.99, February 2008,
“... Few areas of the humanities have undergone such a remarkable transformation over the past half-century as the history of political thought. Students were once introduced to it by way of its giants – the likes of Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Marx. Rather than a living discussion among contemporaries, between great thinkers and lesser fry, political thought was reckoned to be a more elevated – if stilted – affair, of giant responding unto giant, sometimes across centuries of silence ... ”