The Development of Political Theory: A Critical Analysis by Richard Bishirjian Students of political science properly hunger for comprehensive approaches to political theory that situate the major ideas that govern the world today within a theoretical framework. This...
The Development of Political Theory by Richard Bishirjian
The Development of Political Theory: A Critical Analysis
by Richard Bishirjian
Students of political science properly hunger for comprehensive approaches to political theory that situate the major ideas that govern the world today within a theoretical framework. This book, originally published in 1978 by The Society for the Study of Traditional Culture, was written in response to what is in effect an intellectual vacuum. It attempts to provide the essential background necessary for an intelligent view of contemporary intellectual culture, supplementing the undergraduate student’s readings in the works of primary authors and providing graduate students with a primer on beginnings or elements of political theory.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard J. Bishirjian was Founding President and Professor of Government at Yorktown University from 2000-2016. He earned a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Bishirjian was Gerhart Niemeyer’s teaching assistant at Notre Dame. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Dallas in Texas, chairman of the Political Science Department at the College of New Rochelle in New York and founder of Yorktown University where he served as President and Professor of government from 2000-2016.
He served as a political appointee in the Reagan Administration and in the Administration of George H. W. Bush.
He is the editor of A Public Philosophy Reader and author of three books, The Development of Political Theory, The Conservative Rebellion and The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education. His most recent work, “Coda,” is a novel published by En Route Books. His most recent three scholarly studies are Ennobling Encounters, Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and Conscience and Power.
Dr. Bishirjian’s essays have been published in Forbes, The Political Science Reviewer, Modern Age, Review of Politics, Chronicles, the American Spectator and The Imaginative Conservative.
For the full story, see Dick’s website.
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