Great Books, Bad Arguments. (Record no. 36466)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781282458031
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC4968608
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL4968608
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System control number (CaONFJC)MIL245803
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System control number (OCoLC)741250561
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082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 320.01
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Runciman, W. G.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Great Books, Bad Arguments.
264 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Princeton :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2010.
264 #4 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Date of publication, distribution, etc �2010.
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Extent 1 online resource (138 pages)
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Carrier type term online resource
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Republic -- 3. Leviathan -- 4. The Communist Manifesto -- 5. Conclusion.
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Summary, etc Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being? In this lively and provocative book, W. G. Runciman shows where and why they fail, even after due allowance has been made for the different historical contexts in which they wrote. Plato, Hobbes, and Marx were all passionately convinced that justice, peace, and order could be established if only their teachings were implemented and the right people put into power. But Runciman makes a powerful case to the effect that all three were irredeemably naive in their assumptions about how human societies function and evolve and how human behavior could be changed. Yet despite this, Runciman insists that Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto remain great books. Born of righteous anger and frustration, they are masterfully eloquent pleas for better worlds--worlds that Plato, Hobbes, and Marx cannot bring themselves to admit to be unattainable.
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Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Display text Print version:
Main entry heading Runciman, W. G.
Title Great Books, Bad Arguments: "Republic, Leviathan", And "The Communist Manifesto"
Place, publisher, and date of publication Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2010
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element ProQuest (Firm)
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://ezproxy01.ny.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ircp3g4/detail.action?docID=4968608
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