History of Western Political Thought
Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION -- LIST OF 'THINKER' BOXES -- INTRODUCTION -- Periodisation -- The focus of the book -- Western political thinking: A brief overview -- Themes -- PART I THE ENDS OF POLITICS -- 1 POLITICS AND VIRTUE -- Cooperative order in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle -- Negative and positive conceptions of order in medieval political theory: St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas -- Order and sovereignty in early modern political theory: Bodin, Grotius and Hobbes -- Cooperation and order in modern political theory: Rousseau, Kant and Green -- Order, authoritarianism and totalitarianism in modern political theory: Carlyle, Maurras, Mussolini and Hitler -- Order without politics: Anarchism and Marxism -- Conclusion -- 2 POLITICS AND VIRTUE -- Politics and virtue in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle -- Virtue, politics and Christianity: Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin and Radical Protestantism -- Virtue, perfection and freedom: Kant and the British idealists -- Conclusion -- 3 POLITICS AND FREEDOM -- Freedom and politics in the classical republican tradition: Marsilius, Bartolus and Machiavelli -- Politics and 'natural' liberty: Locke, Paine, J. S. Mill -- Gender and freedom: Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, and Harriet Taylor -- Black emancipation: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Conclusion -- 4 FREEDOM, POLITICS AND SOCIABILITY -- Freedom, sociability and the state: Rousseau, Hegel and Green -- Social freedom and the critique of state theory: Marx -- Freedom and anarchy: Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Stirner, Warren and Tucker -- Conclusion -- 5 POLITICS, HAPPINESS AND WELFARE -- Early utilitarianism: Paley, Saint-Pierre, Hume, Helvetius and Beccaria.