Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (set)
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Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (set)

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Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (set)

About this book

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

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. About the Editor
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. A
  10. Abortion and Political Thought
  11. Acton, John (Lord Acton)
  12. Adams, John
  13. Affirmative Action
  14. African Political Thought
  15. Alienation
  16. Althusser, Louis
  17. American Political Thought
  18. Anarchism
  19. Animal Rights
  20. Apartheid
  21. Arab Nationalism
  22. Arendt, Hannah
  23. Aron, Raymond
  24. Australasian Political Thought (Australia and New Zealand)
  25. Authoritarianism
  26. Authority
  27. Autonomy
  28. B
  29. Babeuf, Gracchus
  30. Bagehot, Walter
  31. Bakunin, Michael
  32. BarrĂšs, Maurice
  33. Bauer, Bruno
  34. Bebel, August
  35. Bellamy, Edward
  36. Bentham, Jeremy
  37. Bergson, Henri
  38. Berlin, Isaiah
  39. Bernstein, Eduard
  40. Black Power
  41. Blanc, Louis
  42. Blanqui, Louis-Auguste
  43. Bloch, Ernst
  44. BolĂ­var, SimĂłn
  45. Bolshevism
  46. Bonald, Louis De
  47. Bosanquet, Bernard
  48. Bureaucracy
  49. Burke, Edmund
  50. C
  51. Calhoun, John C.
  52. Camus, Albert
  53. Capitalism
  54. Carlyle, Thomas
  55. Castoriadis, Cornelius
  56. Castro, Fidel
  57. Chartism
  58. Chinese Cultural Revolution
  59. Chinese Marxism
  60. Chinese Political Thought
  61. Chomsky, Noam
  62. Christian Socialism
  63. Citizenship
  64. Civil Disobedience
  65. Civil Society
  66. Class
  67. Cobden, Richard
  68. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  69. Collectivism
  70. Collingwood, Robin George
  71. Communism, Varieties of
  72. Communitarianism and Liberalism
  73. Community
  74. Comte, Auguste
  75. Condorcet
  76. Conservatism
  77. Constant, Benjamin
  78. Constitutionalism
  79. Contract Theory
  80. Cosmopolitanism
  81. Critical Theory
  82. Croce, Benedetto
  83. D
  84. Darwinism and Social Darwinism
  85. Democratic Centralism
  86. Democratic Theory
  87. Dewey, John
  88. Dialectic(s)
  89. Dicey, Albert Venn
  90. Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  91. Diderot, Denis
  92. Durkheim, Émile
  93. E
  94. Economics and Political Thought
  95. Education and Political Thought
  96. Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
  97. Empire and Political Thought
  98. Engels, Friedrich
  99. English Enlightenment
  100. Environmentalism, Ecology, and Political Thought
  101. Equality and Egalitarianism
  102. Ethnicity and Political Thought
  103. F
  104. Fabianism
  105. Fanon, Frantz
  106. Fascism
  107. Federalism
  108. Federalist Papers
  109. Feminism
  110. Ferguson, Adam
  111. Feuerbach, Ludwig
  112. Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
  113. Foucault, Michel
  114. Fourier, Charles
  115. Franco, Francisco
  116. Frankfurt School
  117. Freedom of Expression
  118. Freire, Paulo
  119. French Enlightenment
  120. French Political Thought
  121. French Revolution, Political Thought of the
  122. Freud and Social Theory
  123. Friedman, Milton
  124. G
  125. Game Theory
  126. Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma)
  127. Garibaldi, Giuseppe
  128. General Will
  129. Genocide
  130. George, Henry
  131. German Enlightenment
  132. German Political Thought
  133. Global Civil Society
  134. Globalization
  135. Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur De
  136. Godwin, William
  137. Goldman, Emma
  138. Gorz, André
  139. Gramsci, Antonio
  140. Green, Thomas Hill
  141. Guild Socialism
  142. H
  143. Habermas, JĂŒrgen
  144. Hamilton, Alexander
  145. Havel, VĂĄclav
  146. Hayek, Friedrich
  147. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
  148. Hegelianism
  149. Heidegger, Martin
  150. Herder, Johann Gottfried
  151. Historicism
  152. Ho Chi Minh Thought
  153. Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney
  154. Hobson, John Atkinson
  155. Horkheimer, Max
  156. Human Nature, Theories of
  157. Humanitarian Intervention
  158. Hume, David
  159. I
  160. Idealism
  161. Ideology
  162. Indian Political Thought
  163. Indigenous Political Thought
  164. Individualism
  165. Interests, Theories of
  166. International Law
  167. International Relations Theory and Political Thought
  168. Irish Political Thought
  169. Islamic Political Thought
  170. Isolationism
  171. Italian Political Thought
  172. J
  173. Japanese Political Thought
  174. Jefferson, Thomas
  175. Justice
  176. K
  177. Kant, Immanuel
  178. Kautsky, Karl
  179. Keynes, John Maynard
  180. Khomeini, Ayatollah
  181. King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  182. Kropotkin, Peter A.
  183. L
  184. Labriola, Antonio
  185. Laclau, Ernesto
  186. Latin American Political Thought
  187. Law and Political Thought
  188. Lefort, Claude
  189. Legitimacy
  190. Lenin and Leninism
  191. Liberalism
  192. Liberation Theology
  193. Libertarianism
  194. Liberty, Theories of
  195. Lincoln, Abraham
  196. Locke, John
  197. Lukåcs, György
  198. Luxemburg, Rosa
  199. M
  200. Macaulay, Thomas Babington
  201. Madison, James
  202. Maine, Henry
  203. Maistre, Joseph de
  204. Malthus, Thomas Robert
  205. Mao Zedong
  206. Marcuse, Herbert
  207. Market Socialism
  208. Marx, Karl
  209. Mass Society
  210. Mazzini, Giuseppe
  211. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
  212. Methodology of Political Thought
  213. Michels, Robert
  214. Mill, James
  215. Mill, John Stuart
  216. Modernism
  217. Modernization
  218. Montesquieu, Baron de
  219. Morris, William
  220. Mosca, Gaetano
  221. Multiculturalism
  222. Mussolini, Benito
  223. N
  224. National Socialism
  225. Nationalism
  226. Nationalization
  227. Natural Law
  228. Negri, Antonio
  229. Neoconservatism
  230. Neoliberalism
  231. Nietzsche, Friedrich
  232. Nineteenth-Century Political Thought
  233. Nozick, Robert
  234. Nyerere, Julius
  235. O
  236. Oakeshott, Michael
  237. Obedience, Political
  238. Order, International
  239. Orwell, George
  240. Owen, Robert
  241. P
  242. Pacifism
  243. Paine, Thomas
  244. Pan-Africanism
  245. Pareto, Vilfredo
  246. Peronism
  247. Physiocracy
  248. Planning
  249. Pluralism
  250. Polish Political Thought
  251. Political Culture
  252. Political Philosophy and Political Thought
  253. Political Science and Political Thought
  254. Political Sociology
  255. Popper, Karl
  256. Populism
  257. Positivism
  258. Postmodernism and Political Theory
  259. Power
  260. Pragmatism
  261. Progress
  262. Property, Theories of
  263. Proportional Representation
  264. Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
  265. Psychoanalysis and Political Thought
  266. Punishment
  267. Q
  268. Qutb, Sayyid
  269. R
  270. Race and Racism
  271. Radicalism
  272. Ramadan, Tariq
  273. Rand, Ayn
  274. Rawls, John
  275. Religion and Western Political Thought
  276. Renaissance and Early Modern Political Thought
  277. Representation
  278. Republicanism
  279. Revolution
  280. Rights, Civil
  281. Rights, Natural and Human
  282. Romanticism
  283. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  284. Rule of Law
  285. Ruskin, John
  286. Russell, Bertrand
  287. Russian Political Thought
  288. Russian Revolution, Political Thought of the
  289. S
  290. Saint-Simon, Henri de
  291. Sartre, Jean-Paul
  292. Schmitt, Carl
  293. Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich
  294. Schumpeter, Joseph
  295. Scottish Enlightenment
  296. Separation of Powers
  297. Sidgwick, Henry
  298. SieyĂšs, Emmanuel Joseph
  299. Smith, Adam
  300. Social Democracy
  301. Socialism
  302. Sorel, Georges
  303. Sovereignty, State
  304. Spencer, Herbert
  305. Spengler, Oswald
  306. Stalin and Stalinism
  307. State, Theories of the
  308. State of Nature
  309. Stirner, Max
  310. Strauss, Leo
  311. Suffragettes, Political Thought of the
  312. Syndicalism
  313. T
  314. Technology and Political Thought
  315. Terrorism
  316. Thoreau, Henry David
  317. Tocqueville, Alexis de
  318. Toleration
  319. Tolstoy, Leo
  320. Tönnies, Ferdinand
  321. Totalitarianism
  322. Trotsky, Leon
  323. Twentieth-Century Political Thought
  324. U
  325. United Nations, Theories Of The
  326. Utilitarianism
  327. Utopianism
  328. V
  329. Voegelin, Eric
  330. Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet
  331. von Mises, Ludwig
  332. W
  333. War and Political Thought
  334. Washington, George
  335. Webb, Sidney and Beatrice
  336. Weber, Max
  337. Weil, Simone
  338. Welfare State, Theories of the
  339. Wells, Herbert George
  340. Wollstonecraft, Mary
  341. Y
  342. Young Hegelians
  343. Z
  344. Zionism
  345. Index