推荐理由
在政治理论领域，“剑桥政治思想史原著系列”作为主要的学生教科丛书，如已牢固确立了其地位、本丛书旨在使学生能够获得；从古希腊到20世纪初期西方政治思想更方面所有最为重要的原著，它囊括7所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛．不那么出名的作品而在此之前．这些作品中有许多从未有过现代英文版本可资利用：只要可能，所选原著都会以完整而不删节的形式出版，其中的译作则是专门力本丛书的目的而安
排。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生手梗概．进一步阅读指南， 以及必要的词二表和原文注解：本丛书的最终目的是，力西方政治思想的整个发展脉络提供一个清晰的轮廓。
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内容简介
Bodin`s Six livres de la repubique is a vast synthesis of comparaitve public law and politics .the theoretical core of which is formed by the four chapters translated in this volume.These contain his celebrated theory of sovereignty,which informed his thinking on the state and made his Republique a landmark in the development of European thought.This theory,however,also ncluded a seductive but erroneous thesis that was of greatimpwrtance for the development of royalist ideology:the idea that sovereignty is indivisible,that the entirepower of the state has to be vested in a single individual or group.This thesis,together with the crisis of authority in the French religious wars ,led Bodin to a systimatically absolutist interpretation of the French and other contemporary monarchies.His primary aim was to exclude any legal groud of forcible resistance.A king of France,he hoped ,would continue to adhere to moral and prudential limitations ,but a proper king,he insisted,could not be lawfully constrained.
目录
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Principal events in Bodin`s life
Bibliography
Note on the text
Note on format
Note on translation
Republique,edition of 1583,table of contents
BOOK1,chapter8 On sovereignty
BOOK2,chaper10 On the true marks of sovereignty
BOOK3,chaper1 On the kinds of state in general
BOOK4,chaper5 Whether it is lawful to make on attempt
upon the tyrant`s life and to nullify and
repeal his ordinances after he is dead
Textual notes
Index
