Description
Product ID: | 9780872201477 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | The Rights of Man |
Authors: | Author: Thomas Paine, Gregory Claeys |
Page Count: | 240 |
Subjects: | Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, c 1700 to c 1800 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Elucidates the historical context and the subsequent influence of Paine's text, as well as the major problems in interpreting Paine's theory. Offering more detailed explanatory notes than earlier versions, this edition reprints together for the first time all of Paine''s introductions to the versions published in his lifetime. In his own richly informed Introduction, Claeys elucidates the historical context and the subsequent influence of Paine’s text, as well as the major problems in interpreting Paine’s theory. Instructors will find this new edition a worthy counterpoint to the Hackett edition of Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, edited by J. G. A. Pocock. |
Imprint Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
Publisher Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1992-06-15 |