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George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution

By Conal Condren

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521522382, 9780521522380, 0521366429, 9780521366427, 9780511558405
LCC
DA405 .C66 1989
Open Library ID
OL2209307M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5917474 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Pages
232\230
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This is the first full account, analysis and subsequent history of George Lawson's Politica, 1660-89. For long accepted as a significant figure, through his criticism of Hobbes and his possible influence on Locke, Lawson has never been studied in depth, nor has his biography been previously established. Professor Condren here provides the context and the analysis of Lawson's major work, in the process re-dating it and providing a quite different interpretation from previous readings. A substantial section is devoted to the history of the text and its use in controversies in the period 1660-89, and there is some reassessment of the relationship between Hobbes, Locke and Lawson. The study also uses Lawson's text to reopen questions about English seventeenth-century political theory in general, and to prefigure a theoretical study on metaphor and political conceptualisation. The book thus operates on a number of levels, philosophical and linguistic as well as historical.

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