History of Political Philosophy
Author : Joseph Cropsey
Publisher :
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Political science
ISBN :
History of Political Philosophy
Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226924718
Book Description
Designed for undergraduate students, a historical survey of the most important political philosophers in the Western tradition. This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to include both new and revised essays.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy
Author : George Klosko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 855 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199238804
Book Description
Fifty distinguished contributors survey the entire history of political philosophy. They consider questions about how the subject should best be studied; they examine historical periods and great theorists in their intellectual contexts; and they discuss aspects of the subject that transcend periods, such as democracy, the state, and imperialism.
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674042565
Book Description
Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history of liberalism and democracy. With its careful analyses of the doctrine of the social contract, utilitarianism, and socialism, this volume has a critical place in the traditions it expounds.
On the History of Political Philosophy
Author : W Julian Korab-Karpowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317346009
Book Description
Intended for use in courses on political philosophy or the history of political philosophy, On the History of Political Philosophy provides a critical account of Western political philosophy from classical Greece to modern times. Demonstrating the continued relevance of historical ideas to today's problems, the author traces ongoing discussions about justice, power, and human nature by examining the ideas of key political theorists.
A History of Political Thought
Author : Jeffrey Bercuson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1487538413
Book Description
A History of Political Thought is an accessible introduction to the history of political and economic thought; its main focus is the rise, and eventual consolidation, of modern market society. It asks: What are the effects of private property and commerce on individual well-being and on the stability of the political community? A History of Political Thought answers this central question through the careful study of political philosophers and economists, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century. The book does not have an ideological agenda and gives equal voice to thinkers on opposite sides of the political spectrum. This is one of its key merits and a mark of distinction: its willingness to treat stark opponents – Hobbes and Locke, Smith and Marx, Keynes and Hayek, among others – as equally worthy of serious study. In doing so, the book provides students with a very powerful arsenal of ideas about the evolution of the market and also provides a solid introduction to the history of political thought.
Political Philosophy, a History of the Search for Order
Author : James L. Wiser
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Book Description
A political theory/political philosophy book which focuses on the works of the major thinkers. The text has a thematic unity, which is provided by an analysis of modernity's emergence from the classical and Christian traditions.
On Politics
Author : Alan Ryan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1147 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0871404656
Book Description
Looks at the history of politics from Hobbes to the twenty-first century.
The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700
Author : James Henderson Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521477727
Book Description
This book, first published in 1992, presents a comprehensive scholarly account of the development of European political thinking through the Renaissance and the reformation to the 'scientific revolution' and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. It is written by a highly distinguished team of contributors.
What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 1988-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226777139
Book Description
"All political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. If this directedness becomes explicit, if men make it their explicit goal to acquire knowledge of the good life and of the good society, political philosophy emerges. . . . The theme of political philosophy is mankind's great objectives, freedom and government or empire—objectives which are capable of lifting all men beyond their poor selves. Political philosophy is that branch of philosophy which is closest to political life, to non-philosophic life, to human life."—From "What Is Political Philosophy?" What Is Political Philosophy?—a collection of ten essays and lectures and sixteen book reviews written between 1943 and 1957—contains some of Leo Strauss's most famous writings and some of his most explicit statements of the themes that made him famous. The title essay records Strauss's sole extended articulation of the meaning of political philosophy itself. Other essays discuss the relation of political philosophy to history, give an account of the political philosophy of the non-Christian Middle Ages and of classic European modernity, and present his theory of esoteric writing.
