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First published in 1939, The Anglo-Saxon Tradition puts forward Catlin's view on the power of the Anglo-Saxon Tradition to unite Europe. The book identifies the distinguishing features of this Tradition as respect for personality, liberty, experiment, tolerance, accommodation, democracy, federalism, moralism, and public spirit, and emphasises its role in standing against contemporary totalitarian ideologies. The volume outlines Catlin's plan for the confederation of Anglo-Saxony in relation to what he presents as the central issue for civilisation: the conflict between the ideal of Dominion over Man, and the ideal of Power over Things. The Anglo-Saxon Tradition will appeal to those with an interest in the history of philosophy and the history of political thought.

Originally published in 1927, this book was written as a reaction to the First World War, hoping to try and analyse the causes leading up to it. The author states in the Preface that he puts this forward as an unsystematic contribution to what he is conscious is a very great subject, and he adds since Aristotle, an almost untouched one. He starts by looking at the nature, methods and uses of history, considered from a political point of view. He goes on to look at the possibility of a political science; the place of politics among the social sciences, and the process of politics. In conclusion he considers the relation of politics and ethics.

Part I: Polticial Science; 1: Introduction on Method; 2: Definitions and Functions; 3: The Power Hypothesis; 4: Freedom and Authority; 5: Forms of Government: Democracy and Tyrrany; 6: Forms of Government: Aristocracy and Oligarchy; Part II: Political Philosophy; 7: Community, Society, and the Individual; 8: Law and Sovereignty; 9: Concerning Political Ends; Index

Foreword; Part One: i. Introductory; ii. The Erotic Impulse; iii. The Economic Impulse; iv. The Power Impulse; v. The Religious Impulse; Part Two: i. Is the State the Community?; ii. Is the Nation the Community?; Part Three; i. The Religion of Catholicism; ii. The Religion of Toryism; iii. The Religion of Fascism; iv. The Religion of Communism; v. The Conclusion of It All

Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Part 1. 1. Introductory 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. The Hellenistic Age and the Coming of Rome 5. The Roman Law and the Christian Fathers 6. The Middle Ages 7. Renaissance and Reformation 8. Thomas Hobbes Part 2. 9. Locke and the Social Contract 10. The American and French Revolutions: Montesquieu, Jefferson, Burke and Paine 11. The Early Utilitarians: Jeremy Bentham 12. The Later Utilitarians: James and John Stuart Mill 13. Individualists and Anarchists Part 3. 14. Jean Jacques Rousseau 15. Georg Hegel 16. The Post-Hegelian Conservatives: Carlyle to Bosanquet 17. The Post-Hegelian Conservatives: Treitschke 18. Marx and His Predecessors 19. Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin 20. Laski and Strachey 21. Internationalism and Fascism: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler Part 4. 22. Conclusion and Prospect. Index.