Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments: From Locke to Madison

Author:   Sabrina P. Ramet ,  Torbjørn L. Knutsen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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Pages:   143
Publication Date:   13 August 2024
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Author:   Sabrina P. Ramet ,  Torbjørn L. Knutsen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031624537


ISBN 10:   303162453
Pages:   143
Publication Date:   13 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction:  The Seeds of Enlightenment.- The English Enlightenment:  Algernon Sidney & John Locke.- The Scottish Enlightenment:  Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, & Adam Smith.-  The American Enlightenment:  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, & James Madison.- Mary Wollstonecraft.- The Meaning of the Anglo-American Enlightenment.

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Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU). She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at UCLA in 1981. She is the author of 16 scholarly monographs, including Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe: Collectivist Visions of Modernity (Central European University Press, 2019) and East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943-1991 (Routledge, 2023), and co-author (with Lavinia Stan) of East Central Europe since 1989: Politics, Culture, and Society (Routledge, in production). She is also the editor or co-editor of 40 books, including Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Her previous work in political philosophy includes articles on Martin Heidegger (in Religion Compass, Vol. 6, no. 9, 2012), Jean Bodin (in Politics and Religion / Politikologija religije, Vol. XIII, Issue 1, 2019), and Benedictus de Spinoza (in Teorija in praksa, Vol. 60, no. 2, 2023). She and Torbjørn Knutsen are co-authors of German Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785-1908: A concise introduction (New Academia Publishing, 2023).   Torbjørn L. Knutsen is a Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) and at the Norwegian Air Force Academy. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Denver in 1986. His books include A History of International Relations Theory, 3rd ed. (University of Manchester Press, 2016), Norsk utenrikspolitisk idéhistorie 1890-1940, co-authored with Halvard Leira and Iver B. Neumann (Universitetsforlaget, 2016), Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research, 3rd ed., co-authored with Jonathon W. Moses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Tenke og skrive i samfunnsvitenskapene, co-authored with Tormod Heier (Fagbokforlaget, 2021), German Moral and Political Philosophy, 1785-1908: A concise introduction, co-authored with Sabrina P. Ramet (New Academia Publishing, 2023), and The Rise and Fall of Terrorism (Universitetsforlaget, 2024). His previous work in political philosophy includes an article on Jean-Jacques Rousseau (in Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 31, no. 3, 1994) and a chapter on Niccolò Machiavelli (in Politisk filosofi: Fra Platon til Hannah Arendt (Pax Forlag, 2013).

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