Rise and Fall of Rational Control: (Record no. 756879)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780674298859 (HB) |
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| Classification number | 320.01 |
| Item number | MAN/R |
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| Source of Number | Colon Classification |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mansfield, Harvey C |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10792 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Rise and Fall of Rational Control: |
| Remainder of title | The History of Modern Political Philosophy |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | The Belknap Press of Hardvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii, 323p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The Rise and Fall of Rational Control is a bold interpretation of centuries of intellectual revolutions. Based on Harvey C. Mansfield’s legendary Harvard course, taught for decades to rapt classrooms, this volume is both a grand work of ideas and an elucidating reflection on liberalism, its eclipse, and the possibility of renewal. Mansfield locates the birth of modern political philosophy in the work of Niccolò Machiavelli, the first to assert that the objective of politics is not to achieve wishful ideals of justice or virtue—as the ancients had it—but to manipulate the brute facts of the world in service of interests. Here rational control, free from the order of gods or God, is the key to achieving the modern order, which can liberate humans from slavery and conflict. Hobbes and Locke later develop Machiavelli’s modern idea, laying foundations for liberalism. Then comes the first crisis in the form of Rousseau, who introduces historical change into the very idea of reason, which itself is said to evolve. After Rousseau, history takes center stage, as witnessed in Kant, Marx, and Hegel. The second crisis of modernity arrives with Nietzsche, who casts doubt on reason itself. Ever since, political thought has been stranded in the desert of postmodernism, where Machiavelli’s necessities are replaced by faded subjectivity. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Political Philosophy |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10793 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Thomas Hobbes |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10794 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | John Locke |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10795 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10796 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Immanuel Kant |
| 9 (RLIN) | 8617 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Hegel |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Karl Marx |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1738 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10797 |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | Dept. of Philosophy | Dept. of Philosophy | Processing Center | 24/02/2026 | Modern Book Centre, MBC/0744/2025 Dtd 10/02/2026 | 3169.95 | 1 | 320.01 MAN/R | PHL4884 | 26/03/2026 | 24/02/2026 | 24/02/2026 | 24/02/2026 | Book |