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A major new history of Western political thought as it evolved through conflict and communities. In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory. She traces the development of the Western tradition from classical antiquity through to the Middle Ages in the perspective of social history—a significant departure not only from the standard abstract history of ideas but also from other contextual methods. 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, while largely the work of members or clients of dominant classes, was shaped by complex interactions among proprietors, laborers and states. Western political theory, Wodd argues, owes much of its vigor, and also many ambiguities, to these complex and often contradictory relations. From the Ancient Greek polis of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus and Sophocles, through the Roman Republic of Cicero and the Empire of St

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Author

Ellen Meiksins Wood, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Ferran Meler Ortí

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844672431

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Science

Rating

4 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14