ABSTRACT
A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book:
* traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century
* focuses on individual thinkers and texts
* includes 40 biographies of key political thinkers
* offers original views of theorists and highlights those which may have been unjustly neglected
* develops the wider themes of political thought and the relations between thinkers over time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part IThe Greeks
chapter |13 pages
Ancient Greek Political Thought
chapter |13 pages
Socrates and Plato
chapter |19 pages
The Guardians of the State and Justice
chapter |17 pages
Aristotle and the Science of Politics
chapter |2 pages
Part II Romans and Roman Catholics
chapter |20 pages
From Polis to Cosmopolis
chapter |17 pages
Christian Cosmopolitanism
chapter |17 pages
Christendom and Its Law
part |2 pages
Part III Romans and Humanists The Reinvention of Sovereignty
chapter |19 pages
The Reinvention of Sovereignty
chapter |19 pages
Machiavelli
part |2 pages
Part IVThe theory of the social contract
chapter |37 pages
11SOCIAL CONTRACT I: THE HOBBESIAN VERSION
chapter |19 pages
12SOCIAL CONTRACT II: THE LOCKIAN VERSION
chapter |25 pages
13SOCIAL CONTRACT III: THE ROUSSEAUIST VERSION
part |2 pages
Part VEnlightenment and the development of the modern state
chapter |17 pages
14THE MODERNITY OF THE MODERN STATE
chapter |19 pages
15THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
chapter |23 pages
Enlightenment and Government Through Law
chapter |61 pages
The American Enlightenment
chapter |24 pages
18THE LIMITATIONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: HUME AND BURKE
part |2 pages
Part VIThe rise of liberalism
chapter |21 pages
19THE RISE OF LIBERALISM
chapter |32 pages
20LIBERALISM COMES OF AGE: BENTHAM AND JOHN STUART MILL
chapter |35 pages
Liberalism in Maturity and Decline
part |2 pages
Part VIIReactions to liberalism 1: Hegel—the state and dialectic
chapter |21 pages
22HEGEL AND THE HEGELIAN CONTEXT OF MARXISM
part |2 pages
Part VIIIReactions to liberalism 2: socialism
chapter |24 pages
23MARXISM AND OTHER SOCIALISMS
chapter |17 pages
24SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: BERNSTEIN AND CROSLAND
chapter |27 pages
The Synthesis of Jacobinism and Marxism-Bolshevism
part |2 pages
Part IXReactions to liberalism 3: irrationalism and anti-rationalism