The Pure Theory of Politics

Bertrand de Jouvenel, as always, writes from a deep cultural grasp of the perennial European tradition, effortlessly and appositely quoting from Aristotle and Plato, Shakespeare and Rousseau etc. His is truly in every sense of the word a catholic outlook. An author who first enthralled me as a school boy over fifty years ago, I'm enjoying once again the thrill of observing a first class intellect slice through the vapid pretensions of so much that passes for thought in this modern age.

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The book came as promised and was in excellent condition.

A slow and systematic exposure of political means and methods, often repetitive. De Jouvenel encompasses examples from the Roman Senate to Navajo tribal councils, but he is also heavily reliant upon hypotheticals using alphabetical markers which makes this work sometimes mathematic and academic. Though it lacks the sweeping historical profundity of his "On Power," it's still a very worthwhile examination of man violently chasing his own tail through eternity.

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