Name: Winstanley: Law of Freedom (Past and Present Publications)
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Author: Christopher Hill
ISBN: 9780521031608

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Winstanley: Law of Freedom (Past and Present Publications)

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Christopher Hill

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Christopher Hill

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

396

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN

0521031605

ISBN13

9780521031608

Edition No.

Synopsis "Winstanley: Law of Freedom (Past and Present Publications) "

Leader of the Diggers, or True Levellers, whose colony was forced to disband in 1650, Gerrard Winstanley stands out from a century remarkable for its development in political thought as one of the most fecund and original of political writers. An acute and penetrating social critic with a passionate sense of justice, he worked out a collectivist theory which strikingly anticipates nineteenth- and twentieth-century socialism. He was the first modern European thinker to write in the vernacular advocating a communist society, and to call upon ordinary people to realize it. Winstanley published a number of pamphlets on the colony's behalf, among them a summary of his ideas, published in 1652 as The Law of Freedom in a Platform and dedicated to Oliver Cromwell. Christopher Hill's selection from Winstanley's many published pamphlets demonstrates the coherence and social relevance of Winstanley's philosophy, while it reveals his mastery of colloquial prose and his superb use of imagery.

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Christopher Hill (1912-2003) fue un influyente historiador marxista británico, conocido por su profundo estudio de la Revolución Inglesa del siglo XVII y su enfoque en la "historia desde abajo", resaltando los movimientos radicales y utópicos de la época, como los Diggers y Levellers, vinculando su legado con el presente, y fue Rector del Balliol College de Oxford, dejando obras clave como El siglo de la revolución y El mundo trastornado

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