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.

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Part IThe Greeks

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Part III Romans and Humanists The Reinvention of Sovereignty

chapter |19 pages

Machiavelli

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Part VEnlightenment and the development of the modern state

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Part VIThe rise of liberalism

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Part VIIReactions to liberalism 1: Hegel—the state and dialectic

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Part VIIIReactions to liberalism 2: socialism