Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments: From Locke to Madison

Ramet, Sabrina, Knutsen, Torbjørn

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-13
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 139
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  • ISBN: 303162453X
  • ISBN-13: 9783031624537
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商品描述

This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens. Although the ideas of the Anglo-American Enlightenment can be traced back, in embryo, to the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, it was responses to wars - the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the English Civil War (1642-1651) which were fought above all over religion - that defined it. Algernon Sidney demanded an end to royal absolutism. John Locke called for a government based on religious toleration. Benedictus de Spinoza, Samuel von Pufendorf and others elaborated on the ideas that society was composed of sovereign individuals endowed with reason and rights. Building on the works of these thinkers, Scottish philosophers including David Hume and Adam Smith, and American revolutionaries including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison advanced arguments defending human reason, individual freedom, including religious freedom, and democracy.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書總結並解釋了英國、蘇格蘭和北美的政治思想家如何重塑西方對政府和公民的思考。雖然英美啟蒙運動的思想可以追溯到意大利文藝復興和新教改革的萌芽,但對於戰爭的反應——尤其是為宗教而戰的三十年戰爭(1618-1648)和英國內戰(1642-1651)——才真正定義了這一運動。阿爾傑農·西德尼(Algernon Sidney)要求結束王權絕對主義。約翰·洛克(John Locke)呼籲建立一個基於宗教寬容的政府。班尼迪克特斯·德·斯賓諾莎(Benedictus de Spinoza)、塞繆爾·馮·普芬多夫(Samuel von Pufendorf)等人闡述了社會由擁有理性和權利的主權個體組成的思想。在這些思想家的著作基礎上,蘇格蘭哲學家如大衛·休謨(David Hume)和亞當·史密斯(Adam Smith),以及美國革命者如托馬斯·傑斐遜(Thomas Jefferson)和詹姆斯·麥迪遜(James Madison)提出了捍衛人類理性、個人自由(包括宗教自由)和民主的論點。

作者簡介

Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU). She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at UCLA in 1981. She is the author of 16 scholarly monographs, including Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe: Collectivist Visions of Modernity (Central European University Press, 2019) and East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 (Routledge, 2023), and co-author (with Lavinia Stan) of East Central Europe since 1989: Politics, Culture, and Society (Routledge, in production). She is also the editor or co-editor of 40 books, including Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Her previous work in political philosophy includes articles on Martin Heidegger (in Religion Compass, Vol. 6, no. 9, 2012), Jean Bodin (in Politics and Religion / Politikologija religije, Vol. XIII, Issue 1, 2019), and Benedictus de Spinoza (in Teorija in praksa, Vol. 60, no. 2, 2023). She and Torbjørn Knutsen are co-authors of German Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785-1908: A concise introduction (New Academia Publishing, 2023).

Torbjørn L. Knutsen is a Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) and at the Norwegian Air Force Academy. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Denver in 1986. His books include A History of International Relations Theory, 3rd ed. (University of Manchester Press, 2016), Norsk utenrikspolitisk idéhistorie 1890-1940, co-authored with Halvard Leira and Iver B. Neumann (Universitetsforlaget, 2016), Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research, 3rd ed., co-authored with Jonathon W. Moses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Tenke og skrive i samfunnsvitenskapene, co-authored with Tormod Heier

(Fagbokforlaget, 2021), German Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785-1908: A concise introduction, co-authored with Sabrina P. Ramet (New Academia Publishing, 2023), and The Rise and Fall of Terrorism (Universitetsforlaget, 2024). His previous work in political philosophy includes an article on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (in Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 31, no. 3, 1994) and a chapter on Niccolò Machiavelli (in Politisk filosofi: Fra Platon til Hannah Arendt (Pax Forlag, 2013).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

薇薇安·P·拉梅特(Sabrina P. Ramet)是挪威科技大學(NTNU)的名譽教授。她於1981年在加州大學洛杉磯分校(UCLA)獲得政治學博士學位。她是16部學術專著的作者,包括《20世紀歐洲的民主替代方案:集體主義的現代性視野》(中央歐洲大學出版社,2019年)和《東中歐與共產主義:政治、文化與社會,1943-1991》(勞特利奇出版社,2023年),並與拉維尼亞·斯坦(Lavinia Stan)共同撰寫《1989年以來的東中歐:政治、文化與社會》(勞特利奇出版社,出版中)。她還是40本書的編輯或共同編輯,包括《1989年以來的中歐與東南歐政治,第2版》(劍橋大學出版社,2019年)。她在政治哲學方面的先前研究包括關於馬丁·海德格(Martin Heidegger)的文章(發表於《宗教指南》,第6卷,第9期,2012年)、讓·博丹(Jean Bodin)(發表於《政治與宗教》,第十三卷,第1期,2019年)和巴魯赫·斯賓諾莎(Benedictus de Spinoza)(發表於《理論與實踐》,第60卷,第2期,2023年)。她與托比約恩·克努特森(Torbjørn Knutsen)共同撰寫《德國道德與政治哲學,1785-1908:簡明介紹》(新學術出版社,2023年)。

托比約恩·L·克努特森(Torbjørn L. Knutsen)是挪威科技大學(NTNU)及挪威空軍學院的名譽教授。他於1986年在丹佛大學獲得政治學博士學位。他的著作包括《國際關係理論史,第3版》(曼徹斯特大學出版社,2016年)、與哈爾瓦德·萊拉(Halvard Leira)和伊弗·B·諾伊曼(Iver B. Neumann)共同撰寫的《挪威外交政策思想史1890-1940》(大學出版社,2016年)、與喬納森·W·摩西(Jonathon W. Moses)共同撰寫的《認識的方式:社會與政治研究中的競爭方法論,第3版》(帕爾格雷夫·麥克米倫,2019年)、與托爾莫德·海耶(Tormod Heier)共同撰寫的《社會科學中的思考與寫作》(Fagbokforlaget,2021年)、與薇薇安·P·拉梅特共同撰寫的《德國道德與政治哲學,1785-1908:簡明介紹》(新學術出版社,2023年)以及《恐怖主義的興起與衰落》(大學出版社,2024年)。他在政治哲學方面的先前研究包括關於讓-雅克·盧梭(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)的文章(發表於《和平研究期刊》,第31卷,第3期,1994年)和關於尼科洛·馬基雅維利(Niccolò Machiavelli)的章節(發表於《政治哲學:從柏拉圖到漢娜·阿倫特》(Pax Forlag,2013年))。