Political theory and practice : eight essays on a theme /
Coats, Wendell John.
Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,
c2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-153) and index.
On the actualization of the best regimes in Plato's political dialogues -- Aristotle's two "best" regimes -- Oakeshott's Descartes, Vico's Descartes -- Machiavelli as classical Roman rhetorician? -- Locke's individualism and Descartes's method -- Karl Marx : theory and practice as revolutionary rhetoric -- Michael Oakeshott and the poetic character of human activity -- Reflections on the political 'theory-practice' problem.
Political science.