Sidney: Court Maxims

by Algernon Sidney, Hans W. Blom, Eco Haitsma-Mulier, Ronald Janse

Overview

This remarkable expression of republican thought has never before been published. Algernon Sidney was among the most unrelenting republican partisans of the seventeenth century, and was executed for his opposition to Charles II. Written during Sidney's continental exile, the vivid Court Maxims was only recently rediscovered. The work presents a lively discussion about the principles of government and the practice of politics, articulating a vital tradition of republicanism in an absolutist age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521467360
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/23/1996
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Preface, biographical and critical introduction etc.; Text (comprising 15 dialogues).