Political thinkers : from Socrates to the present (Bog)

Political Thinkers

From Socrates to the Present

Political Thinkers provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Western political thought written by a team of internationally renowned scholars. This definitive collection provides an overview of the canon of great theorists, from Socrates and the Sophists to contemporary thinkers such as Habermas and Foucault.

Each chapter opens with a short chapter guide, biographical sketch, and list of the key texts and ideas of the thinker under discussion. There then follows a critical presentation of that thinker's ideas and significance and a summation of the best contemporary scholarship in the area.

Wide-ranging in its coverage and crystal clear in its structure and presentation, this volume will become a major resource for all students of political thought over the next generation.

David Boucher is Professorial Fellow in European Studies and Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre at Cardiff University.

Paul Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the London School of Economics.

Cover picture: P. W. Lewis, "The Surrender of Barcelona

Contents

1 Introduction

PART I: The Polis

2 The Sophists

3 Socrates

4 Plato

5 Aristotle

PART II: The two kingdoms

6 St Augustine

7 Aquinas

8 Marsiglio of Padua

9 Machiavelli

PART III: The rationalist Enlightenment

10 Hobbes

11 Locke

12 Hume

13 Montesquieu

14 Rousseau

15 The Federalist Papers

16 Wollstonecraft

17 Tocqueville

18 Bentham

19 J. S. Mill on liberty

20 J. S. Mill on the Subjection of Women

PART IV: The counter-Enlightenment

21 Burke

22 Hegel

23 The early Marx

24 Marx and Engels

25 Nietzsche

PART V: The twentieth century:

four approaches

26 Oakeshott

27 Habermas

28 Rawls

29 Foucault

Sprog: Engelsk

Forlag: Oxford University Press

Udgivelsesår: 2003

A comprehensive introduction to the history of Western political thought covering the canon of great theorists from Socrates and the Sophists to the present day (Foucault). Written by a line-up of internationally renowned scholars from four continents, it will provide the definitive introduction to the subject

Titel: Political thinkers : from Socrates to the present

Forfattere: David Boucher,Paul Kelly

Genre: Faglitteratur

Sammendrag: Bogen er bredt dækkende og krystalklar i sin struktur og præsentation og vil blive en vigtig ressource for alle studerende i politisk tænkning gennem næste generation.

Type: Paperback