Fifty Major Political Thinkers
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Fifty Major Political Thinkers

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Fifty Major Political Thinkers

About this book

Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the lives and ideas of some of the most influential figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day. The entries provide a fascinating introduction to the major figures and schools of thought that have shaped contemporary politics, including:

  • Aristotle
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Michel Foucault
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Jurgen Habermas
  • Machiavelli
  • Karl Marx
  • Thomas Paine
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Mary Wollstonecraft.

Fully cross-referenced and including a glossary of theoretical terms, this wide-ranging and accessible book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the evolution and history of contemporary political thought.

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Yes, you can access Fifty Major Political Thinkers by Ian Adams,R.W. Dyson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Political Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9781134145560
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Political Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Alphabetical list of contents
  6. Preface
  7. Plato (427–347 BCE)
  8. Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
  9. Cicero (106–43 BCE)
  10. St Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
  11. St Thomas Aquinas (1225–74)
  12. Nicolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
  13. Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)
  14. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
  15. James Harrington (1611–77)
  16. John Locke (1632–1704)
  17. Montesquieu (1689–1755)
  18. David Hume (1711–76)
  19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
  20. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
  21. Edmund Burke (1729–97)
  22. Tom Paine (1737–1809)
  23. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803)
  24. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)
  25. William Godwin (1756–1836)
  26. G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831)
  27. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
  28. ‘Publius’ and The Federalist Papers
  29. Charles Fourier (1772–1837) and Utopian Socialism
  30. Karl Marx (1818–83)
  31. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59)
  32. John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
  33. Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
  34. T.H. Green (1836–82)
  35. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
  36. Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) and Anarchism
  37. Georges Sorel (1847–1922)
  38. Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932)
  39. Max Weber (1864–1920)
  40. Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870–1924)
  41. Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) and Fascism
  42. Carl Schmitt (1888–1985)
  43. Hannah Arendt (1906–75)
  44. Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–97)
  45. Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992)
  46. Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948)
  47. Sir Karl Popper (1902–94)
  48. Michael Oakeshott (1901–90)
  49. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) and Second Wave Feminism
  50. Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) and the Frankfurt School
  51. Frantz Fanon (1925–61)
  52. Michel Foucault (1926–84)
  53. John Rawls (1921–2002)
  54. Robert Nozick (1938–2002)
  55. Jürgen Habermas (1929–)
  56. Jean-François Lyotard (1924–98)
  57. Glossary
  58. Index