ABSTRACT
This anthology offers students a carefully edited selection of the most influential and enduring interpretations of key political theorists. There are sections on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Bentham, Mill and Marx. Each section includes classic articles by leading critics, a substantial introduction by the editors, and a guide to further reading. A general introduction to the volume as a whole is also provided. This is an up-to-date and extensive guide to the key issues at stake in the interpretative debate, and it provides an invaluable text for students and teachers of modern political thought.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|54 pages
Thomas Hobbes
part Section II|40 pages
John Locke
chapter Chapter Six|22 pages
Appropriation in the State of Nature
part Section III|46 pages
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
part Section IV|34 pages
Edmund Burke
chapter Chapter Eleven|24 pages
Burke and the Ancient Constitution – a Problem in the History of Ideas*
part Section V|78 pages
Jeremy Bentham and J.S. Mill
chapter Chapter Fourteen|28 pages
Two Concepts of Politics and Democracy
part Section VI|42 pages
Karl Marx