Political Thinkers

David Boucher is Professorial Fellow in European Studies at Cardiff University. He is Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre at Cardiff. He was formerly a professor of Political Theory and Government at the University of Wales, Swansea. Past works include 'Political Theories of International Relations' (1998), 'Social Justice: From Hume to Walzer' (edited with Paul Kelly, 1998) and 'The Social Contract From Hobbes to Rawls' (edited with Paul Kelly, 1994). Paul Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at LSE. He has previously taught as a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. Past works include 'Multiculturalism Reconsidered' (October, 2002), 'British Political Science' (edited with Patrick Dunleavy and Michael Moran, 2000) and 'Social Justice: From Hume to Walzer' (edited with David Boucher, 1998).

1. Introduction; PART I: THE CLASSICAL WORLD; 2. The Sophists; 3. Socrates; 4. Plato; 5. Aristotle; 6. Cicero; PART II:CHURCH AND STATE; 7. St Augustine; 8. Aquinas; 9. Marsiglio of Padua; 10. Machiavelli; PART III: THE RATIONALIST ENLIGHTENMENT AND ITS CRITICS; 11. Hobbes; 12. Locke; 13. Hume; 14. Montesquieu; 15. Rousseau; 16. Burke; PART IV:POLITICAL RADICALISM; 17. The Federalist Papers; 18. Wollstonecraft; 19. Bentham; 20. Tocqueville; 21. J.S. Mill on Liberty; 22. J.S. Mill on the Subjection of Women; PART V:THE REVOLUTION IN IDEAS; 23. Kant; 24. Hegel; 25. The Early Marx; 26. Marx and Engels; 27. Nietzsche; PART V: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: FOUR APPROACHES; 28. Oakeshott; 29. Habermas; 30. Rawls; 31. Foucault