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Republican Theory in Political Thought

Virtuous or Virtual?

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  • © 1999

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  1. Bill Brugger

    1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-21

  3. Early Modern Republicanism

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    Pages 22-48

  4. Enlightenment Republicanism

    • Bill Brugger
    Pages 49-78

  5. Mechanical Republicanism: The American Case

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    Pages 79-117

  6. Contemporary Republicanism in What Used to be Called the ‘First World’

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    Pages 118-152

  7. Prospects for Republicanism Elsewhere

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    Pages 153-180

  8. Conclusion

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    Pages 181-184

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 185-211
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About this book

The book provides a thematic examination of republican theory from the Italian Renaissance, through seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, the late- eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the experiences of the early American republic to contemporary debates. It maps out a republican ideal type according to four themes - popular sovereignty, a view of history which is sensitive to systemic corruption, an insistence on civic virtue and, following Philip Pettit, a conception of liberty as non-domination. It evaluates the attractiveness of those themes to liberals, communitarians, socialists, environmentalists and feminists and examines their relevance to inhabitants of the non-Western world. The book contributes to several topical debates dealing with the distinctiveness of a specifically republican tradition, the eclipse of virtue-centred thinking in the eighteenth century, the reassessment of the United States revolutionary tradition, the merits of liberalism versus communitarianism and the waves of democracy which are currently celebrated and criticized worldwide.

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  • Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    Bill Brugger

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BILL BRUGGER is Professor of Politics at Flinders University. He has written and edited many books including Contemporary China and other books on Chinese politics.

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