A history of political thought
Subtitle: a thematic introduction
By: John Morrow.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington Square, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Political science -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-406) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents:; title: Preface; title: List of 'Thinker' Boxes; title: Introduction; title: Periodisation; title: The focus of the Book; title: Western political thinking: a brief overview; title: Themes; title: Part I. The Ends of Politics; title: 1. Politics and Order; title: Cooperative order in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle; title: Negative and positive conceptions of order in medieval political theory: St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas; title: Order and sovereignty in early modern political theory: Bodin, Grotius and Hobbes; title: Order, authoritarianism and totalitarianism in modern political theory: Carlyle, Maurras, Mussolini and Hitler; title: Cooperation and order in modern political theory: Rousseau, Kant and Green; title: Order without politics: Anarchism and Marxism; title: Conclusion; title: 2. Politics and Virtue; title: Politics and virtue in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle; title: Virtue, politics and Christianity: Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin and radical protestantism; title: Virtue, perfection and freedom: Kant and the British idealists; title: Conclusion; title: 3. Politics and Freedom; title: Freedom and politics in the classical republican tradition: Marsilius, Bartolus and Machiavelli; title: Politics and 'natural' liberty: Locke, Paine, J. S. Mill; title: Freedom, sociability and the state: Rousseau, Hegel and Green; title: Social freedom and the critique of state theory: Marx; title: Freedom and anarchy: Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Stirner, Warren and Tucker; title: Conclusion; title: 4. Politics, Happiness and Welfare; title: Early utilitarianism: Paley, Saint-Pierre, Hume, Helvetius and Beccaria; title: Benthamite utilitarianism: Bentham, J. S. Mill, Sidgwick; title: The diffusion of utilitarianism: socialism and welfare; title: Conclusion; title: Part II. The Location of Political Authority: Who Should Rule?; title: 5. Rule by a Single Person; title: Single-person rule in the ancient world: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero; title: Medieval ideas of monarchy--Early theories of kingship: Thomas Aquinas and Christine de Pizan; title: Monarchy in early modern political theory: Bodin, Hobbes, Filmer and Bossuet; title: Monarchy in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political thought: Absolutists, Romantics, Maistre and Maurras; title: Presidents and dictators in modern political theory: Weber and Hitler; title: Conclusion; title: 6. The Rule of the Few; title: The rule of the few in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle; title: Medieval and early modern conceptions of aristocracy: Aquinas, Machiavelli and Harrington; title: Hereditary aristocracy in modern political theory: Burke, Coleridge, Chateaubriand and Constant; title: Non-hereditary elites in modern political theory: J. S. Mill, Nietzsche, Mosca, Pareto, Blanqui and Lenin; title: Conclusion; title: 7. The Rule of the Many; title: 'The many' in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus and Aristotle; title: 'The many' in early modern political theory: classical republicans, radical Protestants and Levellers; title: Popular government in the age of the American and French Revolutions: Madison, Sieyes, Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Thompson and Wheeler, Paine; title: Democracy in nineteenth-century political theory: James Mill, Constant, Tocqueville, J. S. Mill, Taylor, Green and Hobhouse; title: Socialism and democracy: Babeuf, Owen, Marx, Webb and Bernstein; title: Non-liberal theories of democracy in the twentieth century: 'people's' and 'Third World' democracy; title: Conclusion; title: Part III. The Exercise of Political Authority; title: 8. The Sanctions of 'Nature'; title: The 'natural' in ancient political theory: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero; title: Medieval conceptions of natural law: canon and civil law, and Aquinas; title: Natural rights and unlimited government in early modern political theory: Suarez, Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf; title: Natural law, natural rights and limited government: Locke; title: The radical application of natural rights in eighteenth-century political theory: Rousseau, Condorcet, Paine, Wollstonecraft and Thelwall; title: Conclusion; title: 9. Mixed Government, Balanced Constitutions and the Separation of Powers; title: Mixed government in ancient political theory: Plato, Aristotle, Polybius and Cicero; title: Mixed constitutions in early modern political theory: Marsilius, Guicciardini, Machiavelli and Harrington; title: Separation of powers in eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century political theory: Montesquieu, Madison, Sieyes and Constant; title: Conclusion; title: 10. Absolute Government; title: Monarchical supremacy and the beginnings of absolutism: Seyssel; title: Legislative supremacy and absolute government: Bodin; title: Absolute sovereignty: Hobbes' Leviathan; title: Natural law, sociability and absolute government: Pufendorf; title: Absolute sovereignty and divine right monarchy: Filmer and Bossuet; title: Absolute sovereignty and utilitarianism: Saint-Pierre, Bentham and Austin; title: Conclusion; title: 11. The Rule of Law and Rule-Bound Orders; title: The rule of law in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle; title: The rule of law in medieval and early modern political theory: 'Bracton', Aquinas, Marsilius, Seyssel and Hooker; title: Hume's rules of justice; title: The rule of law in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century French and German theory: Montesquieu, Constant and the Rechsstaat; title: Hayek's rules of justice; title: Conclusion; title: Part IV. Challenging Political Authority; title: 12. Resisting Unjust Rulers; title: Resistance in medieval political theory: Aquinas, John of Salisbury, William of Ockham and Marsilius; title: Resistance in early reformation political theory: Luther and Calvin; title: Resistance theory in the late sixteenth century: Beza, Hotman and Mornay; title: Popular sovereignty and resistance: Locke; title: Conclusion; title: 13. Revolutionary Political Thought; title: Ancient, medieval and early-modern theories of revolution: Plato, Aristotle, radical Protestants and levellers; title: Natural rights and revolutionary political theory in late-eighteenth-century America and France: Otis, Sieyes and Babeuf; title: Marxist theories of revolution: Marx and Engels, Kautsky, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Gramsci and Mao Tse-tung; title: Revolutionary anarchism and the critique of Marxism: Bakunin and Kropotkin; title: Decolonisation and revolutionary political theory: Fanon; title: Conclusion; title: 14. Theories of Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Resistance to Political Authority; title: Moral integrity and civil disobedience: Thoreau; title: Non-violent resistance and anticolonialism: Gandhi; title: Civil disobedience and just democracy: King; title: Conclusion; title: 15. Conclusion: Some Contemporary Themes; title: Virtue and politics; title: Moral and political utilitarianism; title: Liberty, individualism and communitarianism; title: Liberal feminism; title: Natural rights, human rights and legal rights; title: Revolutionary fundamentalism; title: Further Reading; title: Bibliography; title: Index of Personal Names; title: Index of Subjects