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 I|68 pages
The Greeks
part II|58 pages
Romans and Roman Catholics
part III|42 pages
Romans and Humanists: The Reinvention of Sovereignty
part IV|106 pages
The Theory of the Social Contract
part V|150 pages
Enlightenment and the Development of the Modern State
part VI|92 pages
The Rise of Liberalism
part VII|24 pages
Reactions to Liberalism 1: Hegel – The State and Dialectic
part VIII|72 pages
Reactions to Liberalism 2: Socialism
part IX|182 pages
Reactions to Liberalism 3: Irrationalism and Anti-Rationalism