{"product_id":"9783030028794","title":"A Reader’s Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise","description":"\u003ch1\u003eA Reader’s Companion to The Prince, Leviathan, and the Second Treatise\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBookman, John T.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMachiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke each sought a new foundation for political order. This book serves as a reader's companion to Machiavelli’s \u003ci\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/i\u003e, Hobbes’s \u003ci\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/i\u003e, and Locke’s \u003ci\u003eSecond Treatise\u003c\/i\u003e written for graduate students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of these classic texts. How do these philosophers respond to perennial questions such as why anyone is ever obligated to obey a government and whether there are any limits to such an obligation. In this book, Bookman begins by sorting out the hermeneutical controversy between textualists and contextualists, offers a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the texts punctuated by questions for the reader’s reflection, and finally suggests a firmer foundation for a theory of political obligation than Hobbes’s and Locke’s consent theories. Also included are bibliographical essays keyed to select bibliographies, providing readers with a wide-ranging, critical reviewof the secondary literature. Intended to be read alongside the primary work, the work is a full intellectual, critical, and bibliographical history, as well as a fresh examination of three classic texts in political theory and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2019-01-10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030028794\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-02880-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 224\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47525852381324,"sku":"9783030028794","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030028794.jpg?v=1776029172","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030028794","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}