The Individual in Political Theory and Practice |
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| Editor:
| Coleman, Janet |
| Series title: | The ^AOrigins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-820549-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1996 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $355.00 |
Book Description:
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In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutismn, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European...
More DescriptionIn this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutismn, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European societies evolved into increasingly centralised national states, there emerged a range of religious and secular discourses which expressed the autonomy of individual agents not only as political subjects but also as private selves.