This anthology offers students a carefully edited selection of the most influential and enduring interpretations of key political theorists. There are sections on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Bentham, Mill and Marx. Each section includes classic articles by leading critics, a substantial introduction by the editors, and a guide to further reading. A general introduction to the volume as a whole is also provided. This is an up-to-date and extensive guide to the key issues at stake in the interpretative debate, and it provides an invaluable text for students and teachers of modern political thought.
Author(s): Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 539
City: Florence
Tags: Political Science: History, Political Science: Philosophy
Cover --
Half Title --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Table of Contents --
Acknowledgements --
General introduction --
Section I: Thomas Hobbes --
1. Introduction --
Accessible Editions --
Suggested Reading --
2. 'The ethical doctrine of Hobbes' --
Notes --
3. 'Warrender and his critics' --
Notes --
Section II: John Locke --
4. Introduction --
Accessible Editions --
Suggested Reading --
5. 'Locke and Professor Macpherson' --
Notes --
6. 'Appropriation in the state of nature: Locke on the origin of property' --
The Views of Grotius and Pufendorf --
The suum according to Grotius. 14. 'Two concepts of politics and democracy: James and John Stuart Mill' --
Notes --
15. 'Mill's principle of liberty' --
Notes --
Section VI: Karl Marx --
16. Introduction --
Accessible Editions --
Suggested Reading --
17. 'On some criticisms of historical materialism' --
Notes --
18. 'On some criticisms of historical materialism. A reply' --
Notes --
Index. 9. 'Will and political rationality in Rousseau' --
Notes --
Section IV: Edmund Burke --
10. Introduction --
Accessible Edition --
Suggested Reading --
11. 'Burke and the ancient constitution --
a problem in the history of ideas' --
Notes --
Section V: Jeremy Bentham and J.S. Mill --
12. Introduction --
Accessible Editions --
Suggested Reading --
13. 'Jeremy Bentham and the public interest' --
Nominalism --
The Reality of the Community --
The Nature of Private Interests --
Interests in the Political Process --
The Sum of Interests --
Notes. Pufendorf on the acquisition of property --
Locke on the acquisition of property --
The Biblical Foundation --
Locke's Problem --
Appropriation --
Apprehension and Enclosure --
Avoiding Injury --
Enlarging Property --
Compact Theory Revived --
Notes --
Section III: Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
7. Introduction --
Accessible Editions --
Suggested Reading --
8. 'The Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract' --
The State of Nature --
The Nature of Man --
Independence and the Original State of Man --
The State of Man --
The Nature of the State --
Notes.
