Astell: Political Writings

by Mary Astell

Book Overview

The writings of the High Church Tory pamphleteer Mary Astell (1666-1731) are a remarkable and underestimated contribution to the constitutional debates which ushered in the modern liberal democratic state. An interlocutor with Swift and Defoe, Astell was perhaps the first systematic critic of Locke's writings, something which has been overlooked in the considerable literature evaluating the reception of Locke's Two Treatises on Government. Astell's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521428459
• ISBN13: 9780521428453
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"