The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory [Hardcover]

The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of modernity that can be best described as radical. First appearing in the sixteenth century, the attitude is best seen not as a coherent ideology or tradition but as a series of conceptual resources that continue to inform political discourse in the present.Introduction The Reformation and the Radical Attitude: Luther, M?ntzer and Calvin The Politicisation of Man: The Levellers and Hobbes Enlightenment, Law and Nature: Montesquieu and Rousseau Conservatism and Radicalism: Burke and Paine Democracy and Revolution: Tocqueville and Marx Crisis and Decision: Lenin and Schmitt ConclusionJASON EDWARDS is Lecturer in Politics, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, London, UK.