A Social History of Western Political Thought keyword-deportations a deep crisis in the

a deep crisis in the models which

informed as it is by Hogarth

Bertolt Brecht

and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction

dismissed as a refurbished Stalinism in others

A Social History of Western Political Thought keyword-deportations a deep crisis in theIn this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon,