John Plamenatz

John Petrov Plamenatz ( born May 16, 1912 in Cetinje, Montenegro, † February 19, 1975 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire ) was a Yugoslav- British political philosopher.

Life

Plamenatz ' ancestors were part of the Montenegrin upper class, the dependent that the Ottoman Empire, however, ruled not occupied country. His parents fled in 1916 after the German and Austro-Hungarian occupation in World War I in allied France. Plamenatz was enrolled by their parents in 1919 in England in the private school Clayesmore School, while they returned a Montenegrin exiles who opposed the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to later stayed in Marseille in Vienna and until the mid- thirties to Montenegro. Plamenatz studied from 1930 at Oriel College, Oxford, his thesis for Ph.D. was initially rejected there, however, he was elected in 1936 a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. From 1951 he was a Fellow of Nuffield College and was followed in 1967 Isaiah Berlin as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford.

During the Second World War he worked for the government in exile of the Yugoslav King Peter II in London and wrote the pamphlet The case of General Mihailovic.

His last work of Karl Marx 's Philosophy of Man was completed when he died of a heart attack. Plamenatz studied the British, French and German political philosophy and had, without to found a school, an important influence on the culture of political thought not only in the UK.

Works

  • Ideology. From d Engl Wilhelm Hoeck, Munich: List, 1972 ISBN 3-471-61559-8
  • " This means nothing less than that will compel him to be free ", in: Reinhard Brandt ( ed.): Jean -Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract or Principles of constitutional law, Berlin: Akademie -Verl. 2000 ISBN 3-05-003237-5 ( first in 1965, translated from the French by Michaela Rehm ), pp. 67-82
  • Consent, Freedom and Political Obligation ( 1938)
  • With Stephen King - Hall: What is Communism? (1947 )
  • The English Utilitarians, with a reprint of Mill's Utilitarianism, Oxford: Blackwell 1949
  • The Revolutionary Movement in France 1815 to 1871 ( 1952)
  • From Marx to Stalin (1953 )
  • German Marxism and Russian Communism (1954 )
  • On Alien and Self -Government (1960 )
  • Man & Society. A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx (2 volumes) London: Longman, first in 1963, several reprints ISBN 0-582-48044-2
  • Democracy and Illusion: An Examination of Certain Aspects of Modern Democratic Theory, London: Longman, 1973 ISBN 0-582-50048-6
  • God, Freedom, and Evil (1974 )
  • Karl Marx 's Philosophy of Man, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975 ISBN 0-19-824551-3
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