In defence of Politics : the nature of human society (Record no. 10783)

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Classification number 320.5 Cri.
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Personal name Crick, Bernard.
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Title In defence of Politics : the nature of human society
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Weidenfeld
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1962
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Extent 156 p.
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Summary, etc. HERE is simply an essay, 'occasioned in the words of Hobbes-<br/>'by the disorders of the present time', an attempt to justify<br/>politics in plain words by saying what it is. I have tried above<br/>all to be very brief, because I believe the essential matter is very<br/>simple. The reader may welcome an unfashionable attempt to<br/>avoid covering him with all the author's chaff on everything<br/>before ever the grain is reached. Since I earn my living as a<br/>university teacher in a subject called 'Government', I am con-<br/>stantly depressed by the capacity of academics to over-compli-<br/>cate things. So in trying to characterise and defend political<br/>activity as something far more rare and more precious than<br/>people commonly suppose, while I show common ground<br/>between rival doctrines, such as conservatism, liberalism and<br/>socialism, yet in no way do I try to analyse precisely the<br/>meaning of their rival claims nor to discuss how to judge<br/>between them-what is sometimes thought of as political theory<br/>or philosophy. This is not, then, a systematic treatise. Here is<br/>simply an attempt, inspired by seeing a fairly obvious growth of<br/>impatience with politics in the “new nations of the world, and<br/>provoked by a personal dislike of exhortation and mere cant<br/>about 'the ideals of freedom', to describe what in fact are the<br/>minimum benefits of politics as an activity.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element political Science .
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