Prime movers : from Pericles to Gandhi : twelve great political thinkers and what's wrong with each of them / Ferdinand Mount.
By: Mount, Ferdinand [author.]
.Publisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2018Description: 438 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471156007; 9781471156021.Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy | PhilosophyDDC classification: 320.01 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 320.01 MOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 07/05/2024 | 016819 |
Introduction : the fatal blandishing -- Pericles (495 BC-429 BC) and the invention of democracy -- Jesus (7/2 BC-AD 30/33) and the brotherhood of man -- Jean-Jacques Rosseau (1782-78) and the self supreme -- Adam Smith (1723-90) and the invisible hand -- Edmund Burke (1729-97) and the stickines of society -- Thomas Jefferson (17430-1826) and the endless revolution -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1826) and hte management of happiness -- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) and the rights of woman, and men too -- Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-72) and the religion of nationhood -- Karl Marx (1818-83) and the death of capitalism -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) and the non-violent path -- Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) and the dream of Islam -- Finale : in praise of trade-off.