John Plamenatz

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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's ancestors belonged to the Montenegrin upper class, who ruled the country that was dependent on the Ottoman Empire but not occupied. His parents fled to allied France in 1916 after the German and Austro-Hungarian occupation in the First World War . Plamenatz was enrolled in the private school Clayesmore School in England by his parents in 1919 , while as Montenegrin exiles who had rejected the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , they stayed in Marseille and later in Vienna and did not return to Montenegro until the mid-thirties. Plamenatz studied from 1930 at Oriel College in Oxford, his dissertation for Ph.D. was initially rejected there, but in 1936 he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University . From 1951 he was a Fellow of Nuffield College and followed Isaiah Berlin as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in Oxford in 1967 . In 1962 he was elected a member of the British Academy .

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

Works

  • Ideology . From d. Engl. By Wilhelm Höck, Munich: List, 1972 ISBN 3-471-61559-8
  • “Which means nothing else than that one will force him to be free” , in: Reinhard Brandt (ed.): Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the social contract or principles of state law , Berlin: Akademie-Verl. 2000 ISBN 3-05-003237-5 (first 1965, translated from 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 & Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx (2 volumes) London: Longman, first 1963, several new editions 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

literature

  • Isaiah Berlin: John Petrov Plamenatz , in ders: Personal impressions , London: Hogarth Pr., 1980 ISBN 0-7012-0510-5 pp. 116–122
  • Geoffrey Marshall: John Petrov Plamenatz, 1912–1975 , in: Proceedings of the British Academy 1976, London: Oxford University Press 1977

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personal data
SURNAME Plamenatz, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plamenatz, John Petrov (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-British political philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Cetinje , Montenegro
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1975
Place of death Hook Norton , Oxfordshire