Two Treatises of Government

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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors Raymond Geuss ^Lj
% Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University *
mjjSa Quentin Skinner
i Professor of Political Science in the Universityof Cambridge
gp Richard Tuck ' _
9| Lecturer in History iri theyJmutnity of Cambridge
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Two Treatises of Government
Peter Laslett's edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, and has been read and used by students^of political theory throughout the world. Dr Laslett demonstrated that the version usually cited was in no way a representation ofthat 'text for posterity' Locke left behind, and exhaustive analysis of Locke's private papers and personal library caused Dr Laslett radically to alter the received notion that the TwoLreatiieswere in any,sense a rationalisation ai the events of 1688: Locke's texts were rather a call for a revolution yet to... Tovább

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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors Raymond Geuss ^Lj
% Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University *
mjjSa Quentin Skinner
i Professor of Political Science in the Universityof Cambridge
gp Richard Tuck ' _
9| Lecturer in History iri theyJmutnity of Cambridge
fcSUT» * ¦mkWOm^^'t^ ** 1
Two Treatises of Government
Peter Laslett's edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, and has been read and used by students^of political theory throughout the world. Dr Laslett demonstrated that the version usually cited was in no way a representation ofthat 'text for posterity' Locke left behind, and exhaustive analysis of Locke's private papers and personal library caused Dr Laslett radically to alter the received notion that the TwoLreatiieswere in any,sense a rationalisation ai the events of 1688: Locke's texts were rather a call for a revolution yet to come.
* For publication in Çambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought Peter Laslett has revised his own amended second edition (1970) of the Two Treatises, up-datinjg the bibliography and engaging with many of the refinements generated by recent advances in Locke scholarship. A guide to further reading and a fully reset and reworked' introduction should enable further generations of students to come to an improved understanding of two? of,the central texts in western politicaljthought. %Â Vissza