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In Search of the Perfect State
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ISBN10: 1971325015
ISBN13: 9781971325019
Publisher: Kudin & Sons Academic Press
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 836
Weight: 3.13
Height: 1.66 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: Russian
ISBN13: 9781971325019
Publisher: Kudin & Sons Academic Press
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 836
Weight: 3.13
Height: 1.66 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: Russian
This textbook offers a systematic introduction to political philosophy through a comprehensive classification of state models and forms of political order.It examines the nature of the state, power, and legitimacy by analyzing political systems according to form of government, political regime, administrative structure, economic system, religious influence, and the protection of rights and freedoms.
Designed for college and university courses, the book is structured for undergraduate and graduate instruction in political philosophy, political theory, and comparative political analysis. Its clear typological framework supports syllabus adoption and modular course design.Rather than seeking to replace classical works of political philosophy, the textbook provides a systematic analytical framework through which foundational texts and models of the state can be examined and compared.Instead of presenting political philosophy as a linear history of ideas, the book approaches political thought through a systematic comparison of state models. Monarchies, republics, democracies, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, unitary and federal systems, market and planned economies, secular and religious states are examined as distinct political forms grounded in philosophical principles.The book also explores ideal, utopian, technocratic, ecological, digital, and anti-state models, alongside classical philosophical conceptions of the perfect state. By combining empirical classification with philosophical analysis, it offers a comprehensive map of political order across historical, theoretical, and hypothetical dimensions.In Search of the Perfect State: Foundations of Political Philosophy reveals the architecture of power itself, showing how political authority is structured, justified, transformed, and contested across diverse models of statehood.
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