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TRAVELING BACK C

By Mcwilliams

TRAVELING BACK C

By Mcwilliams

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In this rich, elegant, and fascinating book, Susan McWilliams asks us to recall the Greek theoros -- the theorist-traveller who journeyed to other lands then returned home to describe the institutions and habits that he saw there, and the reasons and principles behind them. Ever since, shemaintains, travel and the imagination of travel has been an important source for thinking about political possibility... With a tour through works about travel, works by traveling theorists, and works imagining theoretically interesting travel -- from Herodotus through Montesquieu and Tocqueville toDuBois and Baldwin, among others -- she shows how much can be learned from travel and its theorists. She challenges how we have thought about the methods and boundaries of political theory at the same time that she lets us see familiar kinds of theory in new ways. This is a very fine piece ofhumanistic scholarship. --Jacob T. Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, McGill University
Susan McWilliams succeeds marvelously at making the familiar unfamiliar. Theoretically incisive and poetic, this elegantly written book makes a forceful case for 'traveling back' through the Western tradition. --Anne Norton, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, University ofPennsylvania
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2014-02-14
Publication Date:
2014-03-06
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199329680
ISBN13:
9780199329687
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
517 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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