The great political theories

v. 1. A comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from the Greeks to the Enlightenment

v. 2. A comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from the French Revolution to modern times.

v. 1. A comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from the Greeks to the Enlightenment section I. The Greeks Antigone / Sophocles The Republic / Plate The Politics / Aristotle section II. Hellenism and Roman Stoicism Stoic philosophy / Seneca The meditation of Marcus Antoninus / Marcus Aurelius section III. Rome Universal history / Polybius On the Commonwealth, the laws, and On Duties / Cicero section IV. early Christianity The City of God / Saint Augustine section V. Medieval life and thought The origin and significance of feudalism / Carl Stephenson The statesman's book / John of Salisbury section VI. The two realms: The last phase On world government / Dante Defensor pacis / Marsiglio of Padua De Ecclesiastica Potestate / Egidius Romanus Dialogus / William of Ockham Summa Theologica / Aquinas On Kingship / Aquinas De Concordantia Catholica / Nicholas of Cusa section VII. The Renaissance The Prince and The Discourses / Machiavelli A learned commendation of the political laws of England / Fortescue De Republica Anglorum / Sir Thomas Smith section VIII. The Reformation Secular Authority: To what extent it should be obeyed and an open letter concerning the hard book against the peasants / Luther Institutes of the Christian religion / Calvin section IX. The right of resistance Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (A defence of liberty against tyrants) / Stephen Junius Brutus Francogallia / François The king nd the education of the King Francisco Suarez: on law and god the lawgiver and a defence of the Catholic and Apostolic faith / Francisco Suarez The power of the Pope in temporal affairs / Bellarmine section X. Sovereignty and divine right Six books of the Republic / Bodin The true law of free monarchies / James I The rights of war and peace / Grotius section XI. Hobbes and Spinoza Leviathan / Hobbes Tractatus theologico-politicus and tractatus politicus / Spinoza section XII. The development of constitutionalism The Commonwealth of Oceana / Hurrington Laws of ecclesiastical polity / Hooker The second treatise of civil government / Locke section XIII. Vico and Hume the new science / Vico Extracts from various essays / Hume section XIV. French thought in the late 17th and 18th centuries Politics drawn from Holy Scriptures / Bossuet Télémaque / Fenelon The spirit of the laws / Montesquieu

v. 2. comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from the French Revolution to modern times. Preface

section I. Rousseau, Condorcet and Kant

The social contract / Rousseau

Sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind / Condorcet

Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals / Kant

section II. Revolution and counterrevolution

Reflections on the revolution in France / Burke

The rights of man / Paine

Considérations sur la France, Étude sur la Souveraineté, Du Pape, and Les Soirées de Saint-Petersbourg (Considerations on France, study on sovereignty, on the Pope, and the St. Petersburg Dialogues) / De Maistre

section III. Romanticism and idealism

On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history / Carlyle

The science of knowledge / Fichte

The philosophy of right / Hegel

section IV. Utilitarianism

The wealth of nations / Adam Smith

An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation / Bentham

An essay on government / James Mill

Essay on utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill

section V. Early socialism and positivism

What is property? And the general idea of the revolution in the nineteenth century / Proudhon

The organizer, on social organization, and the new Christianity / Saint-Simon

A general view of positivism / Comte

section VI. Marxism

The communist manifesto / Marx

section VII. Liberalism and aristocratic conservatism

On liberty / John Stuart Mill

From the other shore / Alexander Herzen

Democracy in America / De Tocqueville

Force and freedom / Burckhardt

The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams

section VIII. Nationalism

The duties of man / Mazzini

The Jewish state / Herzl

Mein Kampf / Hitler

section IX. Social Darwinism, history and neo-idealism

The study of sociology and social statics / Spencer

Physics and politics / Bagehot

Ancient law / Maine

The principles of political obligation / Green

section X. Irrationalism and psychology

Beyond good and evil and thus spoke Zarathustra / Nietzsche

Reflections on violence / Georges Sorel

Human nature in politics / Graham Wallas

section XI. The elitists

The mind and society / Pareto

The ruling class / Mosca

Political parties / Michels

section XII. Anarchism, democratic socialism and Marxism

God and the state / Bakunin

Anarchist communism / Kropotkin

Evolutionary socialism / Bernstein

What is to be done? / Lenin

The state and revolution / Lenin

The revolution betrayed / Trotsky

The prison notebooks / Antonio Gramsci

section XIII. Theological thought and politics

On human liberty / Pope Leo XIII

Mother and teacher / Pope John XXIII

The rights of man and natural law / Jacques Maritain

Moral man and immoral society and the children of light and the children of darkness / / Reinhold Niebuhr

section XIV. Sociology, psychology and pluralism

Politics as a vocation / Max Weber

The foundations of sovereignty and studies in the problem of sovereignty / Laski

Capitalism, socialism and democracy / Schumpeter

The political community / Sebastian De Grazia

A theory of justice / John Rawls

Selected bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.