Citizens and Saints
Subtitle: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780521892766
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: Three modes to thinking about government underlay Owenite attempts to design the ideal polity: republicanism, in both its eighteenth century country and ancient forms; radical puritanism, especially in the shape of Quakerism; and natural jurisprudence, upon which much late eighteenth-century moral philosophy and political economy was based.