Publication date fourth edition: 1973 A History of Political Theory is a book by on the history of political thought from to fascism and Nazism in the 1930s. First published in 1937, it propounds a hypothesis that theories of politics are themselves a part of politics. That is, they do not refer to an external reality but are produced as a normal part of the social milieu in which politics itself has its being. The book has been translated into Arabic, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, First Edition. Edited by Michael T. George Sabine was a professor of philosophy at. Theorist widely known for A History of Political. Theory, first. Political theory is inherently normative, in other words it.

Mojo master winamp. In 1973, issued a fourth edition,. Contents • • • • • Contents [ ] Part I: The Theory of the City-State 1. Political Thought Before 3. Plato, The Statesman and The Laws 5., Political Ideals 6. Aristotle, Political Actualities 7. The Twilight of the City-State Part II: The Theory of the Universal Community 8.

The Law of the Nature 9. And the Roman Lawyers 10. The Folk and its Laws 12.

Universitas Hominum 14. The Part III: The Theory of the Nation State 17. The Early 19. Royalist and Anti-Royalist Theories 20. The Modernized Theory of 22. England: Preparation for Civil War 23.

The:,, and 26. France: The Decadence of Natural Law 28. Slide a lama online. The Rediscovery of the Community: 29.

Convention and Tradition: and 30.: and 31.: Philosophical Radicalism 32. Liberalism Modernized 33. And Reviews [ ] The book received several favorable reviews soon after publication.

Floyd House noted 'adequate scholarship, his interpretations are highly intelligent, and he has covered the ground with surprising comprehensiveness.' James Leahigh wrote that it was 'as objective and unbiased a study of the many characters presented throughout his work as any hitherto attempted compendious history of political theory.' Chose to review it with ten other works on political theory and noted, 'Half of Sabine's material is devoted to men before, and his treatment of the nineteenth century while brilliant is relatively brief.' Jenks considers the natural audience for it to be 'best for students who are to apprehend the importance of political speculation in the history of social thought.' Jenks admired Sabine's composition: 'Sabine is most successful in integrating theories of successive writers as coherent wholes, and in discerning logical discrepancies. He provides an original and searching critique, from the explicit standpoint of.' The role of in politics is acknowledged: 'Sabine is especially effective in showing the relativity of social thought to general value systems in different societies.'