Anthony Burns Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition

Annotation

This second volume continues the story told in the first by focusing on the writings of a selection of thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in England, the German speaking world and in France, ending with the debate around the French Revolution of 1789. The thinkers discussed include Thomas Hobbes, John Selden, Sir Matthew Hale, John Locke, Samuel Clarke, Johannes Althusius, Samuel Pufendorf, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Jean Barbeyrac, the author of the anonymous Militaire philosophe, Claude Buffier, l'abbe de Saint-Pierre; Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, l'abbe de Sieyes, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft and Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon. The book ends with a discussion of the concept of administration, as we find it in the writings of Saint-Simon, which is seen as a point of transition to the discussion of themes of bureaucracy, technocracy and managerialism.