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Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (set)
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This groundbreaking new work explores modern and contemporary political thought since 1750, looking at the thinkers, concepts, debates, issues, and national traditions that have shaped political thought from the Enlightenment to post-modernism and post-structuralism. Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought is two-volume A to Z reference that provides historical context to the philosophical issues and debates that have shaped attitudes toward democracy, citizenship, rights, property, duties, justice, equality, community, law, power, gender, race, and legitimacy over the last three centuries. It profiles major and minor political thinkers, and the national traditions, both Western and non-Western, which continue to shape and divide political thought. More than 200 scholars from leading international research institutions and organizations have provided signed entries that offer comprehensive coverage of:
- Thought of regions and countries, including African political thought, American political thought , Australasian political thought (Australian and New Zealand), Chinese political thought, Indian political thought, Islamic political Thought, Japanese political thought, and more
- Thought regarding contemporary issues such as abortion, affirmative action, animal rights, European integration, feminism, humanitarian intervention, international law, race and racism, and more
- The ideological spectrum from Marxism to neoconservatism, including anarchism, conservatism, Darwinism and Social Darwinism, Engels, fascism, the Frankfurt School, Lenin and Leninism, socialism, and more
- Connections of political thought to key areas of politics and other disciplines such as economics, psychology, law, and religion
- Notable time periods of political thought since 1750
- Concepts including class, democratic theory, liberalism, nationalism, natural and human rights, and theories of the state
- Theorists and political intellectuals, both Western and non-Western including John Adams, Edmund Burke, Mohandas Gandhi, Immanuel Kant, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ernst Friedrich Schumacher, George Washington, and Mary Wollstonecraft
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction
- A
- Abortion and Political Thought
- Acton, John (Lord Acton)
- Adams, John
- Affirmative Action
- African Political Thought
- Alienation
- Althusser, Louis
- American Political Thought
- Anarchism
- Animal Rights
- Apartheid
- Arab Nationalism
- Arendt, Hannah
- Aron, Raymond
- Australasian Political Thought (Australia and New Zealand)
- Authoritarianism
- Authority
- Autonomy
- B
- Babeuf, Gracchus
- Bagehot, Walter
- Bakunin, Michael
- BarrĂšs, Maurice
- Bauer, Bruno
- Bebel, August
- Bellamy, Edward
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Bergson, Henri
- Berlin, Isaiah
- Bernstein, Eduard
- Black Power
- Blanc, Louis
- Blanqui, Louis-Auguste
- Bloch, Ernst
- BolĂvar, SimĂłn
- Bolshevism
- Bonald, Louis De
- Bosanquet, Bernard
- Bureaucracy
- Burke, Edmund
- C
- Calhoun, John C.
- Camus, Albert
- Capitalism
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Castoriadis, Cornelius
- Castro, Fidel
- Chartism
- Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Chinese Marxism
- Chinese Political Thought
- Chomsky, Noam
- Christian Socialism
- Citizenship
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Society
- Class
- Cobden, Richard
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Collectivism
- Collingwood, Robin George
- Communism, Varieties of
- Communitarianism and Liberalism
- Community
- Comte, Auguste
- Condorcet
- Conservatism
- Constant, Benjamin
- Constitutionalism
- Contract Theory
- Cosmopolitanism
- Critical Theory
- Croce, Benedetto
- D
- Darwinism and Social Darwinism
- Democratic Centralism
- Democratic Theory
- Dewey, John
- Dialectic(s)
- Dicey, Albert Venn
- Dictatorship of the Proletariat
- Diderot, Denis
- Durkheim, Ămile
- E
- Economics and Political Thought
- Education and Political Thought
- Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
- Empire and Political Thought
- Engels, Friedrich
- English Enlightenment
- Environmentalism, Ecology, and Political Thought
- Equality and Egalitarianism
- Ethnicity and Political Thought
- F
- Fabianism
- Fanon, Frantz
- Fascism
- Federalism
- Federalist Papers
- Feminism
- Ferguson, Adam
- Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
- Foucault, Michel
- Fourier, Charles
- Franco, Francisco
- Frankfurt School
- Freedom of Expression
- Freire, Paulo
- French Enlightenment
- French Political Thought
- French Revolution, Political Thought of the
- Freud and Social Theory
- Friedman, Milton
- G
- Game Theory
- Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma)
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe
- General Will
- Genocide
- George, Henry
- German Enlightenment
- German Political Thought
- Global Civil Society
- Globalization
- Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur De
- Godwin, William
- Goldman, Emma
- Gorz, André
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Green, Thomas Hill
- Guild Socialism
- H
- Habermas, JĂŒrgen
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Havel, VĂĄclav
- Hayek, Friedrich
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Hegelianism
- Heidegger, Martin
- Herder, Johann Gottfried
- Historicism
- Ho Chi Minh Thought
- Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney
- Hobson, John Atkinson
- Horkheimer, Max
- Human Nature, Theories of
- Humanitarian Intervention
- Hume, David
- I
- Idealism
- Ideology
- Indian Political Thought
- Indigenous Political Thought
- Individualism
- Interests, Theories of
- International Law
- International Relations Theory and Political Thought
- Irish Political Thought
- Islamic Political Thought
- Isolationism
- Italian Political Thought
- J
- Japanese Political Thought
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Justice
- K
- Kant, Immanuel
- Kautsky, Karl
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Khomeini, Ayatollah
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Kropotkin, Peter A.
- L
- Labriola, Antonio
- Laclau, Ernesto
- Latin American Political Thought
- Law and Political Thought
- Lefort, Claude
- Legitimacy
- Lenin and Leninism
- Liberalism
- Liberation Theology
- Libertarianism
- Liberty, Theories of
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Locke, John
- Lukåcs, György
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- M
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Madison, James
- Maine, Henry
- Maistre, Joseph de
- Malthus, Thomas Robert
- Mao Zedong
- Marcuse, Herbert
- Market Socialism
- Marx, Karl
- Mass Society
- Mazzini, Giuseppe
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Methodology of Political Thought
- Michels, Robert
- Mill, James
- Mill, John Stuart
- Modernism
- Modernization
- Montesquieu, Baron de
- Morris, William
- Mosca, Gaetano
- Multiculturalism
- Mussolini, Benito
- N
- National Socialism
- Nationalism
- Nationalization
- Natural Law
- Negri, Antonio
- Neoconservatism
- Neoliberalism
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nineteenth-Century Political Thought
- Nozick, Robert
- Nyerere, Julius
- O
- Oakeshott, Michael
- Obedience, Political
- Order, International
- Orwell, George
- Owen, Robert
- P
- Pacifism
- Paine, Thomas
- Pan-Africanism
- Pareto, Vilfredo
- Peronism
- Physiocracy
- Planning
- Pluralism
- Polish Political Thought
- Political Culture
- Political Philosophy and Political Thought
- Political Science and Political Thought
- Political Sociology
- Popper, Karl
- Populism
- Positivism
- Postmodernism and Political Theory
- Power
- Pragmatism
- Progress
- Property, Theories of
- Proportional Representation
- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
- Psychoanalysis and Political Thought
- Punishment
- Q
- Qutb, Sayyid
- R
- Race and Racism
- Radicalism
- Ramadan, Tariq
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawls, John
- Religion and Western Political Thought
- Renaissance and Early Modern Political Thought
- Representation
- Republicanism
- Revolution
- Rights, Civil
- Rights, Natural and Human
- Romanticism
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Rule of Law
- Ruskin, John
- Russell, Bertrand
- Russian Political Thought
- Russian Revolution, Political Thought of the
- S
- Saint-Simon, Henri de
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Schmitt, Carl
- Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich
- Schumpeter, Joseph
- Scottish Enlightenment
- Separation of Powers
- Sidgwick, Henry
- SieyĂšs, Emmanuel Joseph
- Smith, Adam
- Social Democracy
- Socialism
- Sorel, Georges
- Sovereignty, State
- Spencer, Herbert
- Spengler, Oswald
- Stalin and Stalinism
- State, Theories of the
- State of Nature
- Stirner, Max
- Strauss, Leo
- Suffragettes, Political Thought of the
- Syndicalism
- T
- Technology and Political Thought
- Terrorism
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Toleration
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Tönnies, Ferdinand
- Totalitarianism
- Trotsky, Leon
- Twentieth-Century Political Thought
- U
- United Nations, Theories Of The
- Utilitarianism
- Utopianism
- V
- Voegelin, Eric
- Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet
- von Mises, Ludwig
- W
- War and Political Thought
- Washington, George
- Webb, Sidney and Beatrice
- Weber, Max
- Weil, Simone
- Welfare State, Theories of the
- Wells, Herbert George
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Y
- Young Hegelians
- Z
- Zionism
- Index