Fifty Major Political Thinkers

346 Pages·2007·1.73 MB·English

by  Ian Adams

Fifty Major Political Thinkers Second
Edition
Now in its second edition, Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the lives
and ideas of some of the theorists who have shaped Western political thought,
from the ancient world to the present day.
Alongside new entries on such figures as Cicero, Frantz Fanon and Carl
Schmitt, other thinkers covered include:
Hannah Arendt
Simone de Beauvoir
Mohandas Gandhi
Machiavelli
Karl Marx
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Paine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fully cross-referenced and including a glossary of theoretical terms, this wide-
ranging and accessible book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in
the evolution and history of political thought across the ages.
Ian Adams is formerly a Lecturer in Politics and Honorary Fellow at the
University of Durham.
R.W. Dyson is a Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs
at the University of Durham.
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Fifty Major Political Thinkers
Second Edition
Ian Adams and R.W. Dyson
First published 2003
by Routledge
This edition published 2007
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Publication Data
Adams, Ian, 1943–
Fifty major political thinkers / Ian Adams and R.W. Dyson. -- 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Political science. 2. Political scientists. I. Dyson, R.W. II. Title.
JA66.A314 2007
320.092’2--dc22
2007007656
ISBN10: 0-415-40098-8 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-415-40099-6 (pbk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-40098-5 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-40099-2 (pbk)
Contents
Alphabetical list of contents
Preface
Plato (427–347 BCE)
Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
Cicero (106–43 BCE)
St Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
St Thomas Aquinas (1225–74)
Nicolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
James Harrington (1611–77)
John Locke (1632–1704)
Montesquieu (1689–1755)
David Hume (1711–76)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Edmund Burke (1729–97)
Tom Paine (1737–1809)
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)
William Godwin (1756–1836)
G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831)
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
‘Publius’ and The Federalist Papers
Charles Fourier (1772–1837) and Utopian Socialism
Karl Marx (1818–83)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59)
John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
T.H. Green (1836–82)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) and Anarchism
Georges Sorel (1847–1922)
Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932)
Max Weber (1864–1920)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870–1924)
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) and Fascism
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985)
Hannah Arendt (1906–75)
Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–97)
Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992)
Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948)
Sir Karl Popper (1902–94)
Michael Oakeshott (1901–90)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) and Second Wave Feminism
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) and the Frankfurt School
Frantz Fanon (1925–61)
Michel Foucault (1926–84)
John Rawls (1921–2002)
Robert Nozick (1938–2002)
Jürgen Habermas (1929–)
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–98)
Glossary
Index
Alphabetical List of Contents
St Thomas Aquinas (1225–74)
Hannah Arendt (1906–75)
Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
St Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) and Second Wave Feminism
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–97)
Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932)
Edmund Burke (1729–97)
Cicero (106–43 BCE)
Frantz Fanon (1925–61)
Michel Foucault (1926–84)
Charles Fourier (1772–1837) and Utopian Socialism
Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948)
William Godwin (1756–1836)
T.H. Green (1836–82)
Jürgen Habermas (1929–)
James Harrington (1611–77)
Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992)
G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831)
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803)
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
David Hume (1711–76)
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) and Anarchism
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870–1924)