The Individual in Political Theory and Practice

by Janet Coleman (Editor)

Overview

In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European societies evolved into increasingly centralized national states, there emerged a range of religious and secular discourses which expressed the autonomy of individual agents not only as political subjects but also as private selves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198205494
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/22/1996
Series:	The ^AOrigins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.15(d)
Lexile:	1650L (what's this?)