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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PROLOGUE: The governing science: things political and the intellectual historian
- I The system of the North: Dugald Stewart and his pupils
- II Higher maxims: happiness versus wealth in Malthus and Ricardo
- III The cause of good government: Philosophic Whigs versus Philosophic Radicals
- IV The tendencies of things: John Stuart Mill and the philosophic method
- V Sense and circumstances: Bagehot and the nature of political understanding
- VI All that glitters: political science and the lessons of history
- VII The clue to the maze: the appeal of the Comparative Method
- VIII Particular polities: political economy and the historical method
- IX The ordinary experience of civilised life: Sidgwick and the method of reflective analysis
- X A separate science: polity and society in Marshall's economics
- XI A place in the syllabus: political science at Cambridge
- EPILOGUE: A nebulous province: the science of politics in the early twentieth century
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PROLOGUE: The governing science: things political and the intellectual historian
- I The system of the North: Dugald Stewart and his pupils
- II Higher maxims: happiness versus wealth in Malthus and Ricardo
- III The cause of good government: Philosophic Whigs versus Philosophic Radicals
- IV The tendencies of things: John Stuart Mill and the philosophic method
- V Sense and circumstances: Bagehot and the nature of political understanding
- VI All that glitters: political science and the lessons of history
- VII The clue to the maze: the appeal of the Comparative Method
- VIII Particular polities: political economy and the historical method
- IX The ordinary experience of civilised life: Sidgwick and the method of reflective analysis
- X A separate science: polity and society in Marshall's economics
- XI A place in the syllabus: political science at Cambridge
- EPILOGUE: A nebulous province: the science of politics in the early twentieth century
- Index
Summary
The intellectually respectable reasons for writing this book are given in our Prologue. Here we should record that our collaboration is the outcome of common tastes and interests, shared teaching duties, and, above all, friendship. Every stage in the planning and execution of the book has involved very close, and often highly convivial, co-operation; both the closeness and the conviviality have made it difficult in some cases to remember who should now be credited with particular ideas or phrases. We have decided, therefore, to accept full collective responsibility for the book as a whole, and to mark this fact by not assigning authorship to the individual essays in the main text. For those – apart from ourselves – who are interested in such matters, the Prologue is the joint effort of all three authors; Essays i, ii, and iii were written by Winch; Essay iv by Collini; Essays v and vi by Burrow; Essay vii by Burrow and Collini; Essays viii and ix by Collini; Essay x by Winch and Collini; Essay xi and the Epilogue by Collini. The only exception to our practice of collective responsibility is the following sentence. Donald Winch and John Burrow wish to pay tribute to the qualities of energy and tact, at times much needed, with which Stefan Collini has discharged the dual office of being both the team's captain and its leading scorer: but for his promptings this book would most probably not have been started, and without his coaxing, his reproaches, and his example it would almost certainly never have been finished.
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- That Noble Science of PoliticsA Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983
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