A history of western political thought
Subtitle: A thematic introduction
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 417
Copyright date: 1998
Table of contents: title: reface		xiii	(2); title: List of `Thinker' Boxes		xv; title: Introduction		1	(16); title: Periodisation		2	(1); title: The focus of the Book		3	(2); title: Western political thinking: a brief overview		5	(8); title: Themes		13	(4); title: PART I THE ENDS OF POLITICS		17	(108); title: 1 Politics and Order; title: 19	(31); title: Cooperative order in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle; title: 20	(5); title: Negative and positive conceptions of order in medieval political theory: St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas; title: 25	(5); title: Order and sovereignty in early modern political theory: Bodin, Grotius and Hobbes; title: 30	(8); title: Order, authoritarianism and totalitarianism in modern political theory: Carlyle, Maurras, Mussolini and Hitler; title: 38	(4); title: Cooperation and order in modern political theory: Rousseau, Kant and Green; title: 42	(4); title: Order without politics: Anarchism and Marxism; title: 46	(2); title: Conclusion; title: 48	(2); title: 2 Politics and Virtue; title: 50	(24); title: Politics and virtue in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle; title: 51	(10); title: Virtue, politics and Christianity: Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin and radical protestantism; title: 61	(7); title: Virtue, perfection and freedom: Kant and the British idealists; title: 68	(4); title: Conclusion; title: 72	(2); title: 3 Politics and Freedom; title: 74	(31); title: Freedom and politics in the classical republican tradition: Marsilius, Bartolus and Machiavelli; title: 75	(2); title: Politics and `natural' liberty: Locke, Paine, J.S. Mill; title: 77	(7); title: Freedom, sociability and the state: Rousseau, Hegel and Green; title: 84	(7); title: Social freedom and the critique of state theory: Marx; title: 91	(3); title: Freedom and anarchy: Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Stirner, Warren and Tucker; title: 94	(9); title: Conclusion; title: 103	(2); title: 4 Politics, Happiness and Welfare; title: 105	(20); title: Early utilitarianism: Paley, Saint-Pierre, Hume, Helvetius and Beccaria; title: 108	(4); title: Benthamite utilitarianism: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Sidgwick; title: 112	(9); title: The diffusion of utilitarianism: socialism and welfare; title: 121	(1); title: Conclusion; title: 122	(3); title: PART II THE LOCATION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY: WHO SHOULD RULE?		125	(74); title: 5 Rule by a Single Person; title: 127	(21); title: Single-person rule in the ancient world: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero; title: 127	(3); title: Medieval ideas of monarchy -- Early theories of kingship: Thomas Aquinas and Christine de Pizan; title: 130	(4); title: Monarchy in early modern political theory: Bodin, Hobbes, Filmer and Bossuet; title: 134	(5); title: Monarchy in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political thought: Absolutists, Romantics, Maistre and Maurras; title: 139	(4); title: Presidents and dictators in modern political theory: Weber and Hitler; title: 143	(4); title: Conclusion; title: 147	(1); title: 6 The Rule of the Few; title: 148	(20); title: The rule of the few in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle; title: 149	(4); title: Medieval and early modern conceptions of aristocracy: Aquinas, Machiavelli and Harrington; title: 153	(2); title: Hereditary aristocracy in modern political theory: Burke, Coleridge, Chateaubriand and Constant; title: 155	(4); title: Non-hereditary elites in modern political theory: J.S. Mill, Nietzsche, Mosca, Pareto, Blanqui and Lenin; title: 159	(7); title: Conclusion; title: 166	(2); title: 7 The Rule of the Many; title: 168	(31); title: `The many' in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus and Aristotle; title: 169	(3); title: `The many' in early modern political theory: classical republicans, radical Protestants and Levellers; title: 172	(3); title: Popular government in the age of the American and French Revolutions: Madison, Sieyes, Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Thompson and Wheeler, Paine; title: 175	(7); title: Democracy in nineteenth-century political theory: James Mill, Constant, Tocqueville, J.S. Mill, Taylor, Green and Hobhouse; title: 182	(7); title: Socialism and democracy: Babeuf, Owen, Marx, Webb and Bernstein; title: 189	(4); title: Non-liberal theories of democracy in the twentieth century: `people's and `Third World' democracy; title: 193	(4); title: Conclusion; title: 197	(2); title: PART III THE EXERCISE OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY		199	(98); title: 8 The Sanctions of `Nature'; title: 201	(26); title: The `natural' in ancient political theory: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero; title: 203	(5); title: Medieval conceptions of natural law: canon and civil law, and Aquinas; title: 208	(5); title: Natural rights and unlimited government in early modern political theory: Suarez, Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf; title: 213	(3); title: Natural law, natural rights and limited government: Locke; title: 216	(3); title: The radical application of natural rights in eighteenth-century political theory: Rousseau, Condorcet, Paine, Wollstonecraft and Thelwall; title: 219	(6); title: Conclusion; title: 225	(2); title: 9 Mixed Government, Balanced Constitutions and the Separation of Powers; title: 227	(22); title: Mixed government in ancient political theory: Plato, Aristotle, Polybius and Cicero; title: 229	(8); title: Mixed constitutions in early modern political theory: Marsilius, Guicciardini, Machiavelli, and Harrington; title: 237	(5); title: Separation of powers in eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century political theory: Montesquieu, Madison, Sieyes and Constant; title: 242	(6); title: Conclusion; title: 248	(1); title: 10 Absolute Government; title: 249	(25); title: Monarchical supremacy and the beginnings of absolutism: Seyssel; title: 250	(2); title: Legislative supremacy and absolute government: Bodin; title: 252	(6); title: Absolute sovereignty: Hobbes' Leviathan; title: 258	(5); title: Natural law, sociability and absolute government: Pufendorf; title: 263	(3); title: Absolute sovereignty and divine right monarchy: Filmer and Bossuet; title: 266	(4); title: Absolute sovereignty and utilitarianism: Saint-Pierre, Bentham and Austin; title: 270	(2); title: Conclusion; title: 272	(2); title: 11 The Rule of Law and Rule-Bound Orders; title: 274	(23); title: The rule of law in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle; title: 276	(2); title: The rule of law in medieval and early modern political theory: `Bracton', Aquinas, Marsilius, Seyssel and Hooker; title: 278	(5); title: Hume's rules of justice; title: 283	(5); title: The rule of law in eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century French and German theory: Montesquieu, Constant and the Rechsstaat; title: 288	(1); title: Hayek's rules of justice; title: 289	(5); title: Conclusion; title: 294	(3); title: PART IV CHALLENGING POLITICAL AUTHORITY		297	(90); title: 12 Resisting Unjust Rulers; title: 300	(23); title: Resistance in medieval political theory: Aquinas, John of Salisbury, William of Ockham and Marsilius; title: 301	(5); title: Resistance in early reformation political theory: Luther and Calvin; title: 306	(4); title: Resistance theory in the late sixteenth century: Beza, Hotman and Mornay; title: 310	(8); title: Popular sovereignty and resistance: Locke; title: 318	(4); title: Conclusion; title: 322	(1); title: 13 Revolutionary Political Thought; title: 323	(32); title: Ancient, medieval and early-modern theories of revolution: Plato, Aristotle, radical Protestants and levellers; title: 324	(2); title: Natural rights and revolutionary political theory in late-eighteenth-century America and France: Otis, Sieyes and Babeuf; title: 326	(3); title: Marxist theories of revolution: Marx and Engels, Kautsky, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Gramsci and Mao Tse-tung; title: 329	(15); title: Revolutionary anarchism and the critique of Marxism: Bakunin and Kropotkin; title: 344	(4); title: Decolonisation and revolutionary political theory: Fanon; title: 348	(5); title: Conclusion; title: 353	(2); title: 14 Theories of Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Resistance to Political Authority; title: 355	(16); title: Moral integrity and civil disobedience: Thoreau; title: 356	(4); title: Non-violent resistance and anticolonialism: Gandhi; title: 360	(6); title: Civil disobedience and just democracy: King; title: 366	(4); title: Conclusion; title: 370	(1); title: 15 Conclusion: Some Contemporary Themes; title: 371	(16); title: Virtue and politics; title: 373	(1); title: Moral and political utilitarianism; title: 374	(1); title: Liberty, individualism and communitarianism; title: 375	(3); title: Liberal feminism; title: 378	(3); title: Natural rights, human rights and legal rights; title: 381	(2); title: Revolutionary fundamentalism; title: 383	(4); title: Further Reading		387	(5); title: Bibliography		392	(15); title: Index of Personal Names		407	(3); title: Index of Subjects		410