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Author Condren, Conal.

Title The language of politics in seventeenth-century England / Conal Condren
Published New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994

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Description xi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Studies in modern history
Studies in modern history (St. Martin's Press)
Contents Pt. I. Overview of the Political Domain. 1. Stability and Structure. 2. Conflation and Distinction -- Pt. II. The Vocabulary of Status and Action. 3. Subject and Citizen. 4. Resistance and Rebellion. 5. Will All the Radicals Please Lie Down, We Can't See the Seventeenth Century
Summary "This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting-point in modern theories of language, intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century, arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to reductionist pressures from better-established fields of discourse. Further there were strong pressures leading towards an indiscriminate and relatively general vocabulary, in turn facilitating the imposition of our anachronistic images of political theory. Part 2 focuses on a sub-set of the political vocabulary, charting the changing relationships between the words subject, citizen, resistance and rebellion, the coinage of rhetorical exchange
The final chapter returns most explicitly to the themes of the introduction, by exploring how the historian's own vocabulary can be systematically misleading when taken into the context of seventeenth-century word use."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis England
Politics History, 1603-1714
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) and index
Subject Field theory (Linguistics)
Political science literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
LC no. 94005979
ISBN 0312121830
0333579372