ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research. Features unique to the Companion are:

  • an extensive coverage of the history of social and political thought, including separate chapters on the development of political thought in the Islamic world, India, and China as well in modern Germany, France, and Britain
  • a focus on the core concepts and the normative foundations of social and political theory
  • a seven-chapter section devoted exclusively to distributive justice, the central issue of political philosophy since Rawls' Theory of Justice
  • extensive coverage of global justice and international issues, which recently have emerged as vital topics
  • an eight-chapter section on issues in social and political philosophy.

The Companion is divided into eight thematic sections: The History of Social and Political Theory; Political Theories and Ideologies; Normative Foundations; The National State and Beyond; Distributive Justice; Political Concepts; Concepts and Methods in Social Philosophy; Issues in Social and Political Philosophy.

Comprised of sixty-nine newly commissioned essays by leading scholars from throughout the world, The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource in social and political philosophy for students and scholars.

part |214 pages

The History of Social and Political Theory

chapter |11 pages

Aquinas

chapter |12 pages

Machiavelli

chapter |12 pages

Hobbes

chapter |11 pages

Locke

chapter |10 pages

Rousseau

chapter |11 pages

Kant

chapter |10 pages

Hegel

chapter |11 pages

Mill

chapter |11 pages

Marx

part |88 pages

Political Theories and Ideologies

part |67 pages

The National State and Beyond

part |91 pages

Political Concepts

chapter |11 pages

Equality

chapter |11 pages

Freedom

chapter |12 pages

Autonomy

chapter |11 pages

Power

chapter |10 pages

Democracy

chapter |11 pages

Rights

chapter |11 pages

Toleration

part |93 pages

Issues in Social and Political Philosophy