Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
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Political Innovation and Conceptual Change by Terence Ball
This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform political beliefs and behaviour undergo changes related to real political events. Having set out and discussed this theme, the editors and contributors go on to analyse the evolution of thirteen particular concepts, all central to political discourse in the western world. They include revolution, rights, democracy, property, corruption, public interest, public opinion, and ideology. The volume will be illuminating to political theorists, intellectual historians, and philosophers.
"Political Innovation and Conceptual Change is welcome because it is a largely successful attempt to integrate theory with praxis...a valuable and thought-provoking volume." Gillis J. Harp, The Journal of American History
Terence Ball received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and teaches political theory at Arizona State University. He taught previously at the University of Minnesota and has held visiting professorships at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the University of California, San Diego. His books include Transforming Political Discourse (Blackwell, 1988), Reappraising Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 1995), and a mystery novel, Rousseau's Ghost (SUNY Press, 1998). Richard Dagger earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has taught at Arizona State University and Rhodes College, and is now professor of political science at the University of Richmond. He has been a faculty fellow of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University, and is the author of many publications in political and legal philosophy, including Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1997). Daniel I. O'Neill holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and is now Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (Penn State University Press, 2007) and coeditor of Illusion ofConsent: Engaging with Carole Pateman (Penn State University Press, 2008).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521359788 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521359783 |
| Title | Political Innovation and Conceptual Change |
| Author | Terence Ball |
| Series | Ideas In Context |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1989-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 380 |
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