The metaphysical theory of the state
Subtitle: a criticism
By: L.T. Hobhouse
Series: Routledge revivals; Routledge revivals
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780203871270
Subjects: Political and social views; The State; État; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Government; General; National; Reference; Essays
Description: Originally published in 1918, this enduring work by renowned sociologist and Liberal politician Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse encompasses a series of five key lectures, first delivered at the London School of Economics in the autumn of 1917. Outlining Hobhouse's theories on social investigation, freedom, law and the will of the state, this edition revives an important work, which has long been unavailable.
Table of contents: title: The objects of social investigation; title: Freedom and law; title: The real will; title: The will of the state; title: Varying applications of the metaphysical theory; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix: Hegel's theory of the will; title: The theory of the absolute.