A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the PresentISBN: 978-0-7456-4085-3
Paperback
320 pages
September 2008, Polity
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- The most comprehensive single volume history of political philosophy text on the market covering all the key themes and thinkers from antiquity to the present day.
- Accessible and engaging, it traces the development of arguments and controversies from ancient Greece, through different forms of community, state and empire, to today’s more global concerns.
- Unlike other books on the market which are organised chronologically, this book adopts a primarily thematic approach to the topic.
- Major thinkers covered include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Lenin, Schmitt, Nietzsche, Foucault, Oakeshott and Rawls.
- Lucidly written by a leading academic in the field, this book is the perfect introduction to a very important topic.
