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- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
书名: Franklin: The Autobiography and other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
作者: Benjamin Franklin (Author), Alan Houston (Editor)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (November 22, 2004)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 052171625X
ISBN-13: 978-0521716253
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin is one of the best known and least understood figures in the history of eighteenth-century political thought. Alan Houston clarifies our understanding of his thought by making available a representative selection of his most important political writings. The entire text of the Autobiography is included alongside letters, essays, pamphlets, and manuscript notes that cover political economy, moral psychology, and religious belief and practice, among other topics.
The present volume provides the textal foundation for a comprehensive reassessment of Franklin’s political thought. Alan Houston makes available, for the first time, a full and representative selection of Franklin’s most important political writings. He pairs a new edition of the Autobiography with letters, essays, pamphlets, and manuscript notes on topics ranging from political economy, moral psychology, religious belief and practice, voluntary association, and the public sphere of news and communication, to the dynamics of international migration and the design of political institutions. Through these texts Franklin emerges as an active participant in debates over the modern commercial republic.
About the Author
Alan Houston teaches in the department of political science at the University of California, San Diego.
