The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts / / Conal Condren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Condren, Conal,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 859
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; PART ONE --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1. Methodology: Its Character and Significance --; CHAPTER 2. Political Theory, Its Conventional Structure, the Issue-Orthodoxy, and the Assessment of Texts --; CHAPTER 3. Political Theory and the Faith in a Tradition of Classic Texts --; PART TWO --; CHAPTER 4. Originality --; CHAPTER 5. Contribution and Influence --; CHAPTER 6. Coherence --; PART THREE --; CHAPTER 7. Ambiguity: Delineation and Typology --; CHAPTER 8. Ambiguity: Generation and Context --; CHAPTER 9. Towards an Explanation of Classic Status --; APPENDIX. Intention, Text, Audience, and Objectivity --; INDEX --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400853649; 9783110413441; 9783110413519; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400853649
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Conal Condren.

Conal Condren examines the criteria for judging both works of political theory and texts associated with related academic genres. He discusses the rhetoric surrounding terms like originality," "influence," and "coherence," the value of these terms as criteria of textual assessment, and their use in charting the history of texts.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.