Binding: Paperback
Description: This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient Greece through different forms of community state and empire to today's global concerns. Bruce Haddock highlights the bewildering variety of contexts that have framed political thinking yet also displays structural features that have proved to be remarkably stable over time. An important theme in the book is the need to see political philosophy even in its most abstract formulations as a response to historically contingent circumstances without limiting its relevance to those circumstances. The emphasis throughout is on political thinking as a response to hard choices. Major thinkers covered include Plato Aristotle Augustine Aquinas Machiavelli Grotius Locke Spinoza Montesquieu Hume Kant Rousseau Burke Hegel Marx Mill Lenin Schmitt Nietzsche Foucault Oakeshott and Rawls. The book treats political philosophy and theory as a tentative engagement with a fractured and controversial past. Yet political thinking remains the exercise of a burden of a responsibility that is inescapable for us. Haddock introduces a history that continues to shape our understanding of ourselves as political and historical creatures. A History of Political Thought will be of interest to students and scholars of politics history and philosophy.
Title: A History Of Political Thought From Antiquity To The Present
Author(s): Haddock Bruce
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9780745640853
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2008
Series: History of Political Thought
Category: Political Science & Theory