Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the life and thought of major figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day. The entries provide an accessible and clearly written introduction to the major ideas and schools of thought which have shaped contemporary politics, including figures such as: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, Mohandas Ghandi, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas. Fully cross-referenced and including a glossary of theoretical terms, this wide ranging and accessible book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the evolution and history of contemporary political thought.

Plato (427-347 bce); Aristotle (384-322 bce); St Augustine of Hippo (354-430); John of
Salisbury (1120-80); St Thomas Aquinas (1225-74); Marsilius of Padua (c.1275-c.1343);
Nicolò Machiavelli (1469-1527); Sir Thomas More (1478-1535); Thomas Hobbes (1588-
1679); James Harrington (1611-77); John Locke (1632-1704); Montesquieu (1689-1755);
David Hume (1711-76); Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78); Immanuel Kant (1724-1804);
Edmund Burke (1729-97); Tom Paine (1737-1809); Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803);
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); William Godwin (1756-1836); G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831);
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832); Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and Utopian Socialism; Karl
Marx (1818-83); Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59); John Stuart Mill (1806-73); Herbert
Spencer (1820-1903); T. H. Green (1836-82); Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900); Prince Peter
Kropotkin (1842-1921) and Anarchism; Georges Sorel (1847-1922); Eduard Bernstein (1850-
1932); Max Weber (1864-1920); Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924); Benito Mussolini (1883-
1945) and Fascism; Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) and Black Emancipation; Hannah Arendt
(1906-75); Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-97); Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992); Mohandas Gandhi
(1869-1948); Sir Karl Popper (1902-94); Michael Oakeshott (1901-90); Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-86) and Second Wave Feminism; Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the Frankfurt
School; Michel Foucault (1926-84); John Rawls (1921-2002); Arne Naess (1912-) and
Ecologism; Robert Nozick (1938-2002); Jürgen Habermas (1929-); Jean-François Lyotard
(1924-98);

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