Short description
This is a comprehensive introduction to the history of Western political thought covering the canon of great theorists from Socrates and the Sophists to the present day (Foucault).
Long description
A comprehensive introduction to the history of Western political thought written by a line-up of internationally renowned scholars from four continents. This definitive collection provides an overview of the canon of great theorists from Socrates and the Sophists to contemporary thinkers such as Habermas and Foucault. Each contributor critically discusses the ideas and significance of each thinker and gives a summation of the best contemporary scholarship in the area. This volume will become the major resource for all students of political thought over the next generation.
Review
This handsomely produced book is now the best in its class, and should deservedly elbow its way on to reading lists in the history of political thought.Matthew Festenstein, THES
Table of contents
- Introduction
- PART I
- THE POLIS
- The Sophists
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- PART II
- THE TWO KINGDOMS
- St Augustine
- Aquinas
- Marsiglio of Padua
- Machiavelli
- PART III
- THE RATIONALIST ENLIGHTENMENT
- Hobbes
- Locke
- Hume
- Montesquieu
- Rousseau
- The Federalist Papers
- Wollstonecraft
- Tocqueville
- Bentham
- J
- S
- Mill on liberty
- J
- S
- Mill on the Subjection of Women
- PART IV
- THE COUNTER
- ENLIGHTENMENT
- Burke
- Hegel
- The Early Marx
- Marx and Engels
- Nietzsche
- PART V
- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- FOUR APPROACHES
- Oakeshott
- Habermas
- Rawls
- Foucault