That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History (Cambridge Paperback Library) by Stefan Collini (PDF)

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In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a ‘science of politics’. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term ‘political science’: in fact, as this book demonstrates, it remained the overarching category under which many nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve systematic understanding of man’s common life. As a result of both the over-concentration on closed abstract systems of thought and the intrusion of concerns which pervade much writing in the history of political theory and of the social sciences, these attempts have since been neglected or misrepresented. By deliberately avoiding such approaches, this book restores the subject to its centrality in the intellectual life and political culture of nineteenth-century Britain.

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Editorial Reviews: Book Description In this work, three historians of ideas examine the forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain to develop a ‘science of politics’.

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⭐Having read this book shortly after it appeared, It is one of the few studies which I decided to reread preparatory to my work on new versions of politics and political leaders based (as discussed in my recent book) on a future-directed novel political philosophy.I was not disappointed. Continuing the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, the “science of politics” continued to be a subject of much discourse in the 19th century, with major debates on developments from “political economy” to the modern discipline of economics; the roles of inductive, comparative and historic approaches to the study of politics versus deductive-philosophic ones, and the relations between the science of politics and history, theology and law. All this, on the understanding that it was the task of the university teaching of those subjects to prepare the future governing class of England as well as the administrators of India.The details of this very well written book will be of interest to students of the intellectual history of the discussed disciplines. But the precedent of seeking a new “noble science of politics” which can serve as an intellectual basis for a reinvigorated practice of politics together with new version of “political economics” is nowadays more relevant than ever. This makes the book recommended readings for all concerned with developing novel versions of political science and preparing university curricula providing a deep grounding for the future political leaders of Homo sapiens.Professor Yehezkel DrorThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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