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  3. Pluralism and the Personality of the State
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2009
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9780511582967
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582967
Subjects:
History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Ideas in Context (47)
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Book description

Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism. The pluralists believed that the state was simply one group among many, and could not therefore be sovereign. They also believed that groups, like individuals, might have personalities of their own. The book examines the philosophical background to political pluralist ideas with particular reference to the work of Thomas Hobbes and the German Otto von Gierke. It also traces the development of pluralist thought before, during and after the First World War. Part Three returns to Hobbes in order to see what conclusions can be drawn about the nature of his Leviathan and the nature of the state as it exists today.

Reviews

"As a history of the implantation of ideas within a particular context, this work is exceptional. As an incisive conceptual negotiation of this tradition....this work borders on brilliance." B.J. Macdonald, Choice

"...such thoroughness is part and parcel of the book's great value to historians of ideas in early twentieth century England." Review of Metaphysics

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