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Compromise : A Political and Philosophical History

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Online-Ressource (308 p)

Englisch

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1. The Opportunity; 1.2. The Challenges; 1.3. Compromise and Self-Representation; 1.4. Compromise and Political Representation; 1.5. The Structure of the Argument; 1.6. Preliminary Conclusions; 2 No Compromise about Compromise; 2.1. Compromise before Compromise?; 2.2. Compromise: From Method to Principle; 2.3. Compromise Without Compromising?; 2.4. The (A)Morality of Compromise; 2.5. Compromise as a National Feature?; 3 The Genealogy of Compromise and Its Vagaries; 3.1. Compromissum as Arbitratio

3.2. Compromissum as Electio3.3. The French Méfiance about Compromise; 3.4. The Virtues of British Compromise; 4 The Dialectic of the Individual; 4.1. The Ambivalent Christian; 4.2. One Individual, Two Fora; 4.3. Two Fora, One Church; 4.4. One Res publica, Two Fora; 4.5. Individuals and Representation; 5 Compromise and Centripetal Individualism; 5.1. The Emergence of Centripetal Individualism; 5.2. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - Sovereignty: Between Will and Reason; 5.3. State versus People; 5.4. Centripetal Individualism and Hands-On Politics

6 Compromise and Centrifugal Individualism6.1. "And the British Being Utterly Divided from the Whole World"; 6.2. The Common Weal of Individuals; 6.3. Collapsing the Two Fora; 6.4. Centrifugal Individualism, Compromise, and Contractualism; 6.5. Parliament and Ascending Representation; 6.6. Compromise as Political Practice; 6.7. The Glorious Compromise; 7 The Forgotten Road of Representation; 7.1. The French 'Contracts of Reason'; 7.2. Other Continental Versions of Contract Theory; 7.3. French Contractualism after Hobbes and Locke; 8 The British Contract as Com-promise

8.1. Patriarchalism and Contractualism8.2. Republicanism and Contractualism; 8.3. The Advent of the 'New' Compromise in Politics; 9 Conclusions; 9.1. Compromise and the Two-Dimensional Man; 9.2. Compromise and the One-Dimensional Man; 9.3. Compromise and Civil Society; 9.4. Compromise and Ascending Representation; 9.5. Render Unto Compromise ...; 9.6. The Future of Political Compromise; Index;

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Compromise

978-1-107-02943-9

978-1-107-02943-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2013

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

978-1-139-61656-0 ( : 90 (NL))

MD 7200      Ähnliche Literatur

JA71 .F85 2013

302.3 ; 302.3

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Compromise (Ethics) ; Political science ; Philosophy ; Electronic books

This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation