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The Limits of Politics: An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 23 April 2008
Andrew Gamble
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paperback. Explores the limits of politics as a subject of study at Cambridge, an academic discipline, and a practical activity. Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 186 x 123 x 2. .
This lecture explores the limits of politics in three senses: as a subject of study at Cambridge, as an academic discipline, and as a practical activity. Politics did not develop as an independent academic subject in Cambridge in the twentieth century, and only now is this situation being rectified with the creation of the new Department of Politics and International Studies. Politics as an academic discipline was once conceived as the master science. More recently it has become much more limited in its scope and its methods, but it still needs to preserve a tradition of political reasoning which focuses ... Read more
This lecture explores the limits of politics in three senses: as a subject of study at Cambridge, as an academic discipline, and as a practical activity. Politics did not develop as an independent academic subject in Cambridge in the twentieth century, and only now is this situation being rectified with the creation of the new Department of Politics and International Studies. Politics as an academic discipline was once conceived as the master science. More recently it has become much more limited in its scope and its methods, but it still needs to preserve a tradition of political reasoning which focuses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521145985
SKU
V9780521145985
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About Andrew Gamble
Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics, Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on British politics, public policy and political economy and his book, Between Europe and America, won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize for the best book published in political science ... Read more
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