Harrington's Empire of Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6344144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Lovett (0000-0002-9745-5559, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-75 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2011.00896.x |
| OpenAlex | W1534394703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
Nearly every reader of James Harrington has taken his theory that property is the foundation of government to be his central and most enduring contribution to political thought. Operating within this standard reading, most of the extensive literature on Harrington has focused on derivative issues, such as the accuracy and depth of his economic reading of English history, or the extent to which his mechanistic account of political institutions displaced more traditional republican accounts of civic virtue. But the standard reading is incomplete. For example, it is puzzling on this reading why Harrington should single out Thomas Hobbes as his chief opponent. To demonstrate the incompleteness of the standard reading, this article will examine a relatively neglected aspect of Oceana: namely, the sharp contrast drawn throughout the work between those communities organized as an ‘empire of laws' and those organized as an ‘empire of men’. As it turns out, Harrington strikes upon a deep problem, not noticed by previous authors in the classical republican tradition, but nevertheless lying at the very conceptual core of republican theory. Examining this problem in detail is both interesting in its own right, in so far as it sheds light on some central issues in republican theory, and in the renewed historical appreciation it brings to our reading of Harrington as well
Adversary · Empire · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Linguistics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Reading (process · Sociology · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
The Principles of Representative Government
Liberty before Liberalism
Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Dante
The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law
Republicanism
Ideas of the State in Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Commentators on the Roman Law
A History of Political Theory
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
Harringtonian Virtue
III. The Ideological Context of Hobbes's Political Thought
The Good Citizen's Psyche
James Harrington's Liberal Republicanism
The Political Works of James Harrington
Milton's Case for a Free Commonwealth
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
The Machiavellian Moment
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |