| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Thrasymachus versus Socrates on philosophy and political action -- 1647: the history of the leveller-agitators and the new model army -- Hobbes' and Locke's metaphysics: substances no longer act, institutions act -- Hobbes and Locke on religious conflict: when institutions act, subjects act -- Hobbes and Locke on politics: sovereign action and contractual action -- Unveiling the forgotten model: the leveller-agitators on joint action. |
| Summary |
Modern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution. Anatomy of Failure seeks to right that wrong by exploring the concept of political action, playing its history against its philosophy. The 1640s are a period of institutional failure and political disaster: the country plunges into civil war, every agent is naked. Established procedures are thrown aside and the very grounds for action are fiercely debated and recast. Five queries emerge in the experience of the New Model Army, five queries that outline an anatomy of failure, isolating the points at which actors disagree, con. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feltham, Oliver. Anatomy of failure. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781441158642 (DLC) 2012030173 (OCoLC)657603370 |
| ISBN |
9781441199546 (electronic book) |
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1441199543 (electronic book) |
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9781472547910 (online) |
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1472547918 |
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9781441158642 |
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1441158642 |
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9781441160881 |
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1441160884 |
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9781441165121 |
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1441165126 |
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