Social Institutions and the Politics of Recognition

Tony Burns

doi:10.5771/9781783488803

Summary

The first of three volumes, this definitive study explores the politics of social institutions, from the time of the ancient Greeks to the Reformation in the sixteenth century.

Tony Burns focuses on those civil-society institutions occupying the intermediate social space which exists between the family or household, on the one hand, and what Hegel refers to as ‘the strictly political state’, on the other. Arguing that the internal affairs of social institutions are a legitimate concern for students of politics, he focuses on the notion of authority, together with that of an individual’s station and its duties. Burns discusses the work of such key thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Nicholas of Cusa, Jean Bodin, Charles Loyseau, John Calvin, Martin Luther and Gerrard Winstanley. He considers what they have said about the relationship that exists between superiors in positions of authority and their subordinates within hierarchical social institutions.

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Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78348-878-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78348-880-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 282
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. On Politics and Political Theory No access
2. On The Distinction Between Civil Society and The State No access
3. On Social Institutions No access
4. My Station and its Duties No access
5. Institutional Roles, Social Identity and Authority No access
6. On Social Inequality No access
7. Questions of Method No access
8. Chapter Structure No access
9. Notes No access
1. 1. Historical Context No access
  2. Ethics and Social Theory in Ancient Greece No access
  3. Plato No access
  4. Aristotle No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Roman Law of Corporations No access
  3. Cicero No access
  4. Seneca No access
  5. Epictetus No access
  6. Marcus Aurelius No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. St. Paul No access
  3. St. Augustine No access
  4. St. Thomas Aquinas No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Marsilius of Padua No access
  3. Nicholas of Cusa No access
  4. Jean Bodin No access
  5. Charles Loyseau No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Martin Luther No access
  3. John Calvin No access
  4. The Radical Reformation No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 247 - 250
Bibliography No access Pages 251 - 276
Index No access Pages 277 - 282