An edition of HISTORY OF WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT: A THEMATIC INTRODUCTION
(1998)
A history of western political thought
A thematic introduction
by JOHN MORROW
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A history of western political thought: A thematic introduction
1998, New York University Press
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Table of Contents
reface xiii (2)
List of `Thinker' Boxes xv
Introduction 1 (16)
Periodisation 2 (1)
The focus of the Book 3 (2)
Western political thinking: a brief overview 5 (8)
Themes 13 (4)
PART I THE ENDS OF POLITICS 17 (108)
1 Politics and Order
19 (31)
Cooperative order in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle
20 (5)
Negative and positive conceptions of order in medieval political theory: St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas
25 (5)
Order and sovereignty in early modern political theory: Bodin, Grotius and Hobbes
30 (8)
Order, authoritarianism and totalitarianism in modern political theory: Carlyle, Maurras, Mussolini and Hitler
38 (4)
Cooperation and order in modern political theory: Rousseau, Kant and Green
42 (4)
Order without politics: Anarchism and Marxism
46 (2)
Conclusion
48 (2)
2 Politics and Virtue
50 (24)
Politics and virtue in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle
51 (10)
Virtue, politics and Christianity: Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin and radical protestantism
61 (7)
Virtue, perfection and freedom: Kant and the British idealists
68 (4)
Conclusion
72 (2)
3 Politics and Freedom
74 (31)
Freedom and politics in the classical republican tradition: Marsilius, Bartolus and Machiavelli
75 (2)
Politics and `natural' liberty: Locke, Paine, J.S. Mill
77 (7)
Freedom, sociability and the state: Rousseau, Hegel and Green
84 (7)
Social freedom and the critique of state theory: Marx
91 (3)
Freedom and anarchy: Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Stirner, Warren and Tucker
94 (9)
Conclusion
103 (2)
4 Politics, Happiness and Welfare
105 (20)
Early utilitarianism: Paley, Saint-Pierre, Hume, Helvetius and Beccaria
108 (4)
Benthamite utilitarianism: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Sidgwick
112 (9)
The diffusion of utilitarianism: socialism and welfare
121 (1)
Conclusion
122 (3)
PART II THE LOCATION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY: WHO SHOULD RULE? 125 (74)
5 Rule by a Single Person
127 (21)
Single-person rule in the ancient world: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero
127 (3)
Medieval ideas of monarchy -- Early theories of kingship: Thomas Aquinas and Christine de Pizan
130 (4)
Monarchy in early modern political theory: Bodin, Hobbes, Filmer and Bossuet
134 (5)
Monarchy in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political thought: Absolutists, Romantics, Maistre and Maurras
139 (4)
Presidents and dictators in modern political theory: Weber and Hitler
143 (4)
Conclusion
147 (1)
6 The Rule of the Few
148 (20)
The rule of the few in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle
149 (4)
Medieval and early modern conceptions of aristocracy: Aquinas, Machiavelli and Harrington
153 (2)
Hereditary aristocracy in modern political theory: Burke, Coleridge, Chateaubriand and Constant
155 (4)
Non-hereditary elites in modern political theory: J.S. Mill, Nietzsche, Mosca, Pareto, Blanqui and Lenin
159 (7)
Conclusion
166 (2)
7 The Rule of the Many
168 (31)
`The many' in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus and Aristotle
169 (3)
`The many' in early modern political theory: classical republicans, radical Protestants and Levellers
172 (3)
Popular government in the age of the American and French Revolutions: Madison, Sieyes, Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Thompson and Wheeler, Paine
175 (7)
Democracy in nineteenth-century political theory: James Mill, Constant, Tocqueville, J.S. Mill, Taylor, Green and Hobhouse
182 (7)
Socialism and democracy: Babeuf, Owen, Marx, Webb and Bernstein
189 (4)
Non-liberal theories of democracy in the twentieth century: `people's and `Third World' democracy
193 (4)
Conclusion
197 (2)
PART III THE EXERCISE OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY 199 (98)
8 The Sanctions of `Nature'
201 (26)
The `natural' in ancient political theory: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero
203 (5)
Medieval conceptions of natural law: canon and civil law, and Aquinas
208 (5)
Natural rights and unlimited government in early modern political theory: Suarez, Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf
213 (3)
Natural law, natural rights and limited government: Locke
216 (3)
The radical application of natural rights in eighteenth-century political theory: Rousseau, Condorcet, Paine, Wollstonecraft and Thelwall
219 (6)
Conclusion
225 (2)
9 Mixed Government, Balanced Constitutions and the Separation of Powers
227 (22)
Mixed government in ancient political theory: Plato, Aristotle, Polybius and Cicero
229 (8)
Mixed constitutions in early modern political theory: Marsilius, Guicciardini, Machiavelli, and Harrington
237 (5)
Separation of powers in eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century political theory: Montesquieu, Madison, Sieyes and Constant
242 (6)
Conclusion
248 (1)
10 Absolute Government
249 (25)
Monarchical supremacy and the beginnings of absolutism: Seyssel
250 (2)
Legislative supremacy and absolute government: Bodin
252 (6)
Absolute sovereignty: Hobbes' Leviathan
258 (5)
Natural law, sociability and absolute government: Pufendorf
263 (3)
Absolute sovereignty and divine right monarchy: Filmer and Bossuet
266 (4)
Absolute sovereignty and utilitarianism: Saint-Pierre, Bentham and Austin
270 (2)
Conclusion
272 (2)
11 The Rule of Law and Rule-Bound Orders
274 (23)
The rule of law in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle
276 (2)
The rule of law in medieval and early modern political theory: `Bracton', Aquinas, Marsilius, Seyssel and Hooker
278 (5)
Hume's rules of justice
283 (5)
The rule of law in eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century French and German theory: Montesquieu, Constant and the Rechsstaat
288 (1)
Hayek's rules of justice
289 (5)
Conclusion
294 (3)
PART IV CHALLENGING POLITICAL AUTHORITY 297 (90)
12 Resisting Unjust Rulers
300 (23)
Resistance in medieval political theory: Aquinas, John of Salisbury, William of Ockham and Marsilius
301 (5)
Resistance in early reformation political theory: Luther and Calvin
306 (4)
Resistance theory in the late sixteenth century: Beza, Hotman and Mornay
310 (8)
Popular sovereignty and resistance: Locke
318 (4)
Conclusion
322 (1)
13 Revolutionary Political Thought
323 (32)
Ancient, medieval and early-modern theories of revolution: Plato, Aristotle, radical Protestants and levellers
324 (2)
Natural rights and revolutionary political theory in late-eighteenth-century America and France: Otis, Sieyes and Babeuf
326 (3)
Marxist theories of revolution: Marx and Engels, Kautsky, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Gramsci and Mao Tse-tung
329 (15)
Revolutionary anarchism and the critique of Marxism: Bakunin and Kropotkin
344 (4)
Decolonisation and revolutionary political theory: Fanon
348 (5)
Conclusion
353 (2)
14 Theories of Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Resistance to Political Authority
355 (16)
Moral integrity and civil disobedience: Thoreau
356 (4)
Non-violent resistance and anticolonialism: Gandhi
360 (6)
Civil disobedience and just democracy: King
366 (4)
Conclusion
370 (1)
15 Conclusion: Some Contemporary Themes
371 (16)
Virtue and politics
373 (1)
Moral and political utilitarianism
374 (1)
Liberty, individualism and communitarianism
375 (3)
Liberal feminism
378 (3)
Natural rights, human rights and legal rights
381 (2)
Revolutionary fundamentalism
383 (4)
Further Reading 387 (5)
Bibliography 392 (15)
Index of Personal Names 407 (3)
Index of Subjects 410
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