This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to include both new and revised essays.

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History of Political Philosophy
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2012Print ISBN
9780226777108
9780226777085
eBook ISBN
9780226924717
Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Philosophy History & TheoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Thucydides by David Bolotin
- Plato by Leo Strauss
- Xenophon by Christopher Bruell
- Aristotle by Carnes Lord
- Marcus Tullius Cicero by James E. Holton
- St. Augustine by Ernest L. Fortin
- Alfarabi by Muhsin Mahdi
- Moses Maimonides by Ralph Lerner
- St. Thomas Aquinas by Ernest L. Fortin
- Marsilius of Padua by Leo Strauss
- Niccolo Machiavelli by Leo Strauss
- Martin Luther and John Calvin by Duncan B. Forrester
- Richard Hooker by Duncan B. Forrester
- Francis Bacon by Howard B. White
- Hugo Grotius by Richard H. Cox
- Thomas Hobbes by Laurence Berns
- Rene Descartes by Richard Kennington
- John Milton by Walter Berns
- Benedict Spinoza by Stanley Rosen
- John Locke by Robert A. Goldwin
- Montesquieu by David Lowenthal
- David Hume by Robert S. Hill
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Allan Bloom
- Immanuel Kant by Pierre Hassner
- William Blackstone by Herbert J. Storing
- Adam Smith by Joseph Cropsey
- The Federalist by Martin Diamond
- Thomas Paine by Francis Canavan, S.J.
- Edmund Burke by Harvey Mansfield, Jr.
- Jeremy Bentham and James Mill by Timothy Fuller
- Georg W. F. Hegel by Pierre Hassner translated by Allan Bloom
- Alexis De Tocqueville by Martin Zetterbaum
- John Stuart Mill by Henry M. Magid
- Karl Marx by Joseph Cropsey
- Friedrich Nietzsche by Werner J. Dannhauser
- John Dewey by Robert Horwitz
- Edmund Husserl by Richard Velkley
- Martin Heidegger by Michael Gillespie
- Epilogue: Leo Strauss and the History of Political Philosophy by Nathan Tarcov and Thomas L. Pangle
- Notes
- Index
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