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W. G. Runciman (1934–2020)

Autor de Social Science and Political Theory

20+ Obras 344 Miembros 6 Reseñas

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W. G. Runciman has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1971, and of the British Academy, as whose President he served from 2001 to 2004, since 1975. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh, London, Oxford and York. He is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, mostrar más Oxford, and a Foreign Honorary-Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. mostrar menos

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This set of essays is interesting mainly because the author is good at presenting clear arguments. Their subject matter unfortunately reflects the fact that they were written in the 1960's: there's too much marxism and the theory of democracy only makes a small cameo appearance as the oligarchic theory of political parties. This serves as a good reminder of the insights that have been made in political theory in the past 60 years. The analyses presented in this book are not necessarily outdated, but they are uninteresting. I wish the author would have rewritten the whole thing in the 2000s.… (más)
 
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thcson | May 9, 2022 |
This is a good, non-theoretical presentation of the possibilities and limits of social science. I thought the chapters on power and chance were particularly interesting. The book probably did not contain anything that I had not encountered before, but the author's level-headed analysis and clear explanations certainly improved my understanding of these matters.
 
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thcson | Feb 15, 2022 |
I can remember reading Plato's Republic and Marx's Capital and laughing out loud over the absurdity of some of their arguments. I could never manage a complete reading of Leviathan due to its overbearing religiosity. The author of this short book asks what the arguments presented in the Republic, Leviathan and the Communist Manifesto really amount to. He shows that the clearly fail if they are tested as sociological theories of how society actually works or how it could work. The categorization the author reaches at the end of the book is that all three aim to show that "if only this were to come about, how much better a place the world would be!". This seems to be a sensible interpretation, and it certainly makes you wonder if their classical status in political philosophy is undeserved.… (más)
 
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thcson | otra reseña | Jan 27, 2022 |

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Obras
20
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3
Miembros
344
Popularidad
#69,365
Valoración
3.8
Reseñas
6
ISBNs
52
Idiomas
4

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