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Book Reviews: A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx, beyond Individualism: Reconstituting the Liberal Self, Solidarity and Schism: ‘The Problem of Disorder’ in Durkheimian and Marxist Sociology, The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers, The Politics of Social Policy, Parliamentary Questions, The ...
Shirley Robin Letwin boredom, he methodically explores ways of encouraging the imagination to maintain continuous activity. We learn that the great lover is one who knows how to manipulate the fears and hopes of the loved one, for that is the surest way of stimulating crystallization. Fear is essential to love not
Summary. The idea of law has been at the heart of Western civilization since its beginnings in ancient Greece. All that we consider distinctive about our civilization, above all its genius for maintaining a peaceful communal life that leaves room for a remarkable variety in thought and action, is bound up with the idea of law. Yet why that is ...
The Anatomy of Thatcherism is a bold and searching book about how Britain changed between 1979 and 1992. It challenges many truisms about British politics, and Is indispensable reading both for those who believe in the future relevance of Thatcherism and for those who want to demolish it. And it will be of particular interest to those con ...
- Shirley Robin Letwin
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Letwin argues that Thatcherism promoted a moral agenda rather than an economic doctrine or a political theory in order to achieve a fundamental realignment in British politics. She introduces a new term--"the vigorous virtues"--to describe what Thatcherites have aimed to cultivate in Individual Britons and In the country as a whole.
On the History of the Idea of Law is the first book ever to trace the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appear-ance in Plato’s writings to today. Shirley Robin Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes. She finds confusions and serious ...
