Bernard Crick

Bernard Crick
Born(1929-12-16)16 December 1929
England
Died19 December 2008(2008-12-19) (aged 79)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Academic background
EducationUniversity College London (B.Sc.)
London School of Economics (PhD)
Academic work
Institutions

Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008)[1] was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as opposed to a "politics of thought" or of ideology, and he held that "political power is power in the subjunctive mood."[2] He was a leading critic of behaviouralism.

  1. ^ Haroon Siddique (19 December 2008). "Sir Bernard Crick dies aged 79". The Guardian.
  2. ^ Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, p. 118.