Sheldon Sanford Wolin ( ; August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015) was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics.
 A political theorist for fifty years, Wolin became Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he taught from 1973 to 1987.
Alasdair Cochrane (born 31 March 1978) is a British political theorist and ethicist who is currently a senior lecturer in political theory in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.
 He is known for his work on animal rights from the perspective of political theory, which is the subject of his two books: "An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory" (2010, Palgrave Macmillan) and "Animal Rights Without Liberation" (2012, Columbia University Press).
 He is currently working on a third book.
 He is a founding member of the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, a UK-based think tank focussed on furthering the social and political status of nonhuman animals.
 He joined the Department at Sheffield in 2012, having previously been a faculty member at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics.
Shannon C. Stimson (born October 8, 1951) is an American political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas, whose work and teaching spans the economic and political thought of both ancient societies and the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
 She has been Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1991, where she is also affiliated and has served on the faculty boards of programs in the Political Economy of Industrial Societies, and of Peace and Conflict Studies.
 Professor Stimson received her PhD from Harvard University, and prior to moving to Berkeley taught at Harvard as both a graduate student and then a faculty member from 1976 to 1991.
 She has held the Fulbright Professorship in the United Kingdom, the Christensen Fellowship of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, an appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Queens' College, Cambridge University and the John K. Castle Chair in Ethics, Politics and Economics, and in Political Science at Yale University.
 Her research has been supported through fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, as well as by several prize fellowships.
 Her articles have appeared in numerous edited volumes, journals of political thought, economics, the history of economic thought, and political science in America and Europe.
 She has served on the editorial boards of the "American Political Science Review", and presently serves on the editorial board of the Adam Smith Review, and has contributed to the "Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought".
Robert Alan Dahl ( ; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was a political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
 He established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes are enacted through competitive, if unequal, interest groups—and introduced "polyarchy" as a descriptor of actual democratic governance.
 An originator of "empirical theory" and known for advancing behavioralist characterizations of political power, Dahl's research focused on the nature of decisionmaking in actual institutions, such as American cities.
 Dahl is considered one of the most influential political social scientists of the twentieth century, and has been described as "the dean of American political scientists."
Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas.
 He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer.
 In its obituary of the scholar, the "Independent" stated that "Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time [...] there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential".
Murray Newton Rothbard ( ; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist, philosopher, political theorist, and historian.
 He was a heterodox economist of the Austrian School, a historian, and a political theorist whose writings and personal influence played a seminal role in the development of modern libertarianism.
 Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism, and a central figure in the twentieth-century American libertarian movement.
 He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects.
 Rothbard asserted that all services provided by the "monopoly system of the corporate state" could be provided more efficiently by the private sector and wrote that the state is "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large."
 He called fractional-reserve banking a form of fraud and opposed central banking.
 He categorically opposed all military, political, and economic interventionism in the affairs of other nations.
 According to his protégé Hans-Hermann Hoppe, "There would be no anarcho-capitalist movement to speak of without Rothbard."
"Two Concepts of Liberty" was the inaugural lecture delivered by the liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin before the University of Oxford on 31 October 1958.
 It was subsequently published as a 57-page pamphlet by Oxford at the Clarendon Press.
 It also appears in the collection of Berlin's papers entitled "Four Essays on Liberty" (1969) and was more recently reissued in a collection entitled simply "Liberty" (2002).
Lene Auestad is an author and a philosopher from the University of Oslo.
 She has written on the themes of prejudice, social exclusion and minority rights, and has contributed to public debates on hate speech.
 The book Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice combined critical theory with psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies, examining the underlying unconscious forces and structures that make up the phenomena of xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and sexism.
 It provides a nuanced, detailed overview of how social prejudices, and the discrimination and violence that often tend to accompany the latter, come into being.
 At the same time the author demonstrated that in order to fully understand how a complex phenomenon such as prejudice works, we need to alter our traditional Western philosophical understanding of the subject as a supposedly fully rational, autonomous and individual agent.
 Auestad argues that we need a more situated and relational understanding of subjectivity and the subject, as prejudice and acts of discrimination always take place in a contextualized setting between subjects whose thoughts and actions influence each other.
 Unlike more conservative forms of philosophy, Auestad examines the processes that make up prejudice from both a theoretical and practical point of view.
 This becomes especially clear in the book’s seventh chapter, in which she reads critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s The Authoritarian Personality (1950)—together with some of Adorno’s other work—along the lines of object-relations theory.
 This attachment to critical theory—and to the work of for instance queer theorist Judith Butler and political theorist Hannah Arendt, and Butler’s thoughts about hate speech, and in Arendt’s case, perspectivism and pluralism, in particular— reveals how much Auestad is invested in analysing prejudice and discrimination not as isolated but societal phenomena that need to be critically examined and also fought against.
 The work navigates between subjectivism in psychoanalysis and situationism in sociology that would each in its own way deny how psychic and emotional interiority and sociocultural exteriority become mutually complicit from setting to setting in buttressing the specific inter-subjective molds around which prejudices form as social forces.
 Auestad shows how the self-conceptions of those subjected to it become maimed, but she also illustrates the societal costs that must be paid as a consequence of distorted human relationships.
 In doing so, she demonstrates how contingent conceptions of social status and group standing permeate and secure what becomes misconstrued as “reality.”
 Auestad shows how unconscious fantasy and representations form, combine, and recombine in ways directly relevant to a theoretical interpretation of the psychodynamics of prejudice.
 The import is to reveal how silent codes of social consensus and cultural conviction
Iris Marion Young (2 January 1949 – 1 August 2006) was a political theorist and feminist focused on the nature of justice and social difference.
 She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program there.
 Her research covered contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy.
 She believed in the importance of political activism and encouraged her students to involve themselves in their communities.
Peter Wagner is a German social and political theorist.
 His research focus is with the issues of social theory and political philosophy of contemporary Europe.
 He has done comparative research in the history of the social sciences, and has in his publications attempted to formulate and utilize a sociology of modernity.
 He is a former Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, Florence, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and an ICREA Research Professor at University of Barcelona.

Question: What collection of papers by a Russian-British social and political theorist appeared in 1969?
Answer: "Four Essays on Liberty"