Political thinkers : from Socrates to the present / edited by David Boucher and Paul Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents 1 Introduction / David Boucher, Paul Kelly Pt. I The Polis 2 The Sophists / Peter Nicholson 3 Socrates / Fred Rosen 4 Plato / C. D. C. Reeve 5 Aristotle / Tony Burns 6 Cicero / Cary J. Nederman Pt. II The Two Kingdoms 7 St Augustine / Jean Bethke Elshtain 8 Aquinas / Joseph Canning 9 Marsiglio of Padua / Cary J. Nederman 10 Machiavelli / Joseph V. Femia Pt. III The Rationalist Enlightenment 11 Hobbes / Deborah Baumgold 12 Locke / Jeremy Waldron 13 Hume / Paul Kelly 14 Montesquieu / Yoshie Kawade 15 Rousseau / David Boucher 16 The Federalist Papers / Terence Ball 17 Wollstonecraft / Carole Pateman 18 Tocqueville / Cheryl Welch 19 Bentham / Paul Kelly 20 J.S. Mill on Liberty / Paul Kelly 21 J.S. Mill on the Subjection of Women / Jennifer Ring Pt. IV The Counter-Enlightenment 22 Kant / Katrin Flikschuh 23 Burke / David Boucher 24 Hegel / Alan Patten 25 The Early Marx / Lawrence Wilde 26 Marx and Engels / Paul Thomas 27 Nietzsche / Nathan Widder 28 Kant / Katrin Flikschuh 29 Cicero / Cary Nederman Pt. V The Twentieth Century 30 Oakeshott / David Boucher 31 Habermas / Kenneth Baynes 32 Rawls / Rex Martin 33 Foucault / Paul Patton Index

An introduction to the history of Western political thought written by scholars from four continents. This collection provides an overview of the canon of great theorists from Socrates and the Sophists to contemporary thinkers such as Habermas and Foucault.