عنوان

The forum and the tower :

شابک

0199782458 (hbk.)

شابک

9780199782451 (hardcover : alk. paper)

شماره

b533865

عنوان اصلي

The forum and the tower :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mary Ann Glendon

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 261 p. ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index

متن يادداشت

Plato in the real city -- Marcus Tullius Cicero : politics in a dying republic -- Justinian, Tribonian, and Irnerius : how statesmen and scholars rescued Roman law (twice) -- Advising the prince : the enigma of Machiavelli -- The scholar vs. the statesman : Thomas Hobbes and Edward Coke -- John Locke : the don heard around the world -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : political philosophy without politics -- Edmund Burke : man on a tightrope -- Tocqueville the politician -- Max Weber : scholarship and politics in the disenchanted world -- Oliver Wendell Holmes : the tradition-haunted iconoclast -- The first lady and the philosopher : Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Malik, and the human rights project

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the meeting of theory and reality. Glendon discusses a roster of great names, from Edmund Burke to Alexis de Tocqueville, Machiavelli to Rousseau, John Locke to Max Weber, down to Charles Malik, who helped Eleanor Roosevelt draft the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With each, she explores the eternal questions they faced, including: Is politics such a dirty business that I shouldn't get involved? Will I betray my principles by pursuing public office? Can I make a difference, or will my efforts be wasted? Even the most politically successful intellectuals, she notes, did not all end happily. The brilliant Marcus Tullius Cicero, for example, reached the height of power in the late Roman Republic, then fell victim to intrigue, assassinated at Mark Antony's order. Yet others had a lasting impact. The legal scholar Tribonian helped Byzantine Emperor Justinian I craft the Corpus Juris Civilis, which became a bedrock of Western law. Portalis and Napoleon emulated them, creating the civil code that the French emperor regarded as his greatest legacy"--Provided by publisher

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

How scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

موضوع مستند نشده

Burke, Edmund,1729-1797

موضوع مستند نشده

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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Coke, Edward,1552-1634

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Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935

موضوع مستند نشده

Irnerius,active 12th century

موضوع مستند نشده

Justinian, I,483?-565

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Locke, John,1632-1704

موضوع مستند نشده

Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527

موضوع مستند نشده

Malik, Charles Habib,1906-1987

موضوع مستند نشده

Plato

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Roosevelt, Eleanor,1884-1962

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778

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Tocqueville, Alexis de,1805-1859

موضوع مستند نشده

Tribonian,-545?

موضوع مستند نشده

Weber, Max,1864-1920

موضوع مستند نشده

Learning and scholarship-- Political aspects-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Scholars-- Political activity-- History

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Glendon, Mary Ann,1938-

تاريخ عمليات

20120105122719.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y