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Physics And Politics

Name: Physics And Politics
Author: Walter Bagehot
ISBN: 9781612034645

by Walter Bagehot

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Overview

Walter Bagehot's Physics and Politics is one of the great short masterpieces of nineteenth-century thought on social psychology. It defines with grim humor the conditions of stability and social progress. "Physics" according to Bagehot, refers to natural science; "politics" to social science. His stimulating analysis was the first important effort to comprehend the implications of the new science for the study of political affairs.
Walter Bagehot was a banker, editor, political thinker, and literary critic. He edited the Economist for the last seventeen years of his life and enjoyed intimate friendships with the leading political figures of his day. He also wrote The English Constitution and Lombard Street.

About the Author, Walter Bagehot

Banker, editor, political thinker, and literary critic, Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) edited the Economist for the last seventeen years of his life and enjoyed intimate friendships with the leading political figures of his day. He also wrote The English Constitution and Lombard Street. Roger Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion and author of Tenured Radicals (also published by Ivan R. Dee).

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Sullivan

Unflinching...a perfect antidote to the omni-present, thought-destroying political correctness that afflicts our culture.
— The Trenton Times

H. S. Jones

Finely imaginative...a remarkable book.
— H-Net Reviews

Jacques Barzun

We go to Bagehot for something that seems very difficult to convey accurately through mere definition or single examples-the true character of political man. This character, in turn, is important to discover, because on it depends the possibility of leading a life above `physics,' a life better than that of the jungle..

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<:st> A new edition of the classic 1872 essay in social psychology. In it Bagehot explores the implications of science in general and Darwin's ideas in particular, for political affairs. He also points out the complex and often tragic relationship between individual and collective happiness. A new 35-page introduction provides biographical and social background information. Cited in . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)