Two Essays on Government

Author: Locke
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: Peter Laslett’s edition of Locke’s Two Treatises of Government is widely recognized as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, and has been read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. Dr. Laslett demonstrated that the version usually cited was in no way a representation of the text Locke left behind for posterity, and exhaustive analysis of Locke’s private papers and personal library caused Dr. Laslett to radically alter the received view that the Two Treatises were in any sense a rationalization of the events of 1688: Locke’s text was rather a call for a revolution yet to come.