博林布鲁克政治著作选

HenryStJohn.laterViscounrBolingbroke，wasoneofthemostctrativepoliticalthinkersineighteenth-centuryBritain，andhiswritingsinfluencedBritishAmericanFoundingFathersandFrenchRevolutionaries.Inthisvolume，modemisedandfullyannotatedtextsofhismostimportantpoliticalworks，theDissertationuponParties，theletter‘OntheSpiritofPatriotism’，andTheIdeaofaPatriotKing，areboughttogetherforthefirsttime.BolingbrokewasthefirstmajorghinkertofacethelongtermeconomicandpliticalconsequencesoftheGloriousRevolution，particularlythecreationofthefirstmodemsystemofpartypolitics.Intheseworksofthe1730sheattemptedtoforgeanideologyofopositiontoattacktheWhigoligarchyofSirRobertWalpole，usingmaterialsdrawnfromclassicalrepublicanismandneo-StoicismaswellasfromcontemporaryWhigandTorythought.Hisanalysesofconstitutionalgovemmentandthepartysystemarestiollrelevanttothedilemmastothecommongoodandthenecessityofanon-partisamexecutive.Thisvolumeisintendedforundergraduatestudentsandassuchitcontainsanewintroduction，achronologyofthemaineventsinBolingbroke‘slifeandaninvaluableguidetofurtherreading.DAVADARMTAGEisAssociateProfesorofHistoryatColunbiaUniversity.Heco-ceitedMiltonandRepublicanismwithAmandHimyandQuentinSkinner.