Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pufendorf, Samuel / Samuel, Pufendorf / Tully, James, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Samuel Pufendorf is one ong>ofong> the most important moral and political philosophers ong>ofong> the seventeenth century. His theory, which builds on Grotius and Hobbes, was immediately recognized as a classic and taken up by writers as diverse as Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Smith. Over the past twenty years there has been a renaissance ong>ofong> Pufendorf scholarship. On the Duty ong>ofong> ong>Manong> and Citizen is Pufendorf's own epitome ong>ofong> his monumental On the Law ong>ofong> Nature and ong>ofong> Nations, and it served as a basic text in European universities throughout the Enlightenment. This edition has a lucid and historically sensitive translation by Michael Silverthorne, the first since the early twentieth century. James Tully's introduction sets the text in its context, summarizes the main arguments, surveys recent literature on Pufendorf, and shows how Pufendorf transformed natural law theory into an independent discipline ong>ofong> juristic political philosophy that dominated reflection on politics until Kant.