Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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Review
'Professor Julian Franklin's edition of 'Bodin: On Sovereignty' consists of four chapters from Les Six Livres de la République, incontestably one of the seminal texts in modern political thought.' French History
Book Description
This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology. The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique. Bodin was primarily responsible for introducing the seductive but erroneous notion that sovereignty is indivisible, that the entire power of the state had to be vested in a single individual or group. This thesis, combined with the prevailing crisis of authority during the French religious wars, led Bodin to a systematically absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. This is the first complete translation of this material into English since 1606, and is accompanied by a lucid introduction, chronology, and bibliography.
Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought),Jean Bodin,Julian H. Franklin,Raymond Geuss,Quentin Skinner,Cambridge University Press,0521349923,Early works to 1800,General,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Sovereignty,History of ideas, intellectual history,Political Science / Reference,Political science & theory
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