In Defence of Politics - Couverture souple

Crick, Sir Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140135863 ISBN 13 : 9780140135862

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

At a time of brittle cynicism about the activities of politicians, this essay attempts to justify politics in plain words by saying what it is. In a civilized community the establishment of political order among rival groups and interests marks the birth of freedom. In spite of the compromises and half measures which prompt the impatient idealist to regard politics as a dirty word, indeed because of them, the negotiating processes of politics remain the only tested alternative to government by coercion.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hobbes by the disorders of the present time ,an attempt to justify politics in plain words by saying what it is. I have tried above all to be very brief, because I believe the essential matter is very simple. The reader may welcome an unfashionable attempt to avoid covering him with all the authors chaff on everything before ever the grain is reached. Since I earn my living as a university teacher in a subject called Government ,I am constantly depressed by the capacity of academics to over-complicate things. So in trying to characterise and defend political activity as something far more rare and more precious than people commonly suppose, while I show common ground between rival doctrines, such as conservatism, liberalism and socialism, yet in no way do I try to analyse precisely the meaning of their rival claims nor to discuss how to judge between them what is sometimes thought of as political theory or philosophy. This is not, then, a systematic treatise. Here is simply an attempt, inspired by seeing a fairly obvious growth of impatience with politics in the new nations of the world, and provoked by a personal dislike of exhortation and mere cant about the ideals of freedom ,to describe what in fact are the minimum benefits of politics as an activity. Since nothing of importance in this essay is original, my debts are too diffuse and ordinary for acknowledgement except perhaps apology for having, in the sections on conservatism and socialism inC hapter VI, bitten two of the hands that have fed me at theL ondon School of Economics and Political Science. B. C.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140135863
• ISBN 13: 9780140135862
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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