A History of Political Thought

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A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx!

This book in its second edition continues to examine in detail the fascinating evolution of the history of political thought – rich and diverse – through the works of thirteen key political thinkers (from Plato to Aristotle to Machiavelli to Hegel to Kant to Marx). It focuses on the recent interpretations of the classical texts, for instance feasibility of the ideal State in Plato; civic humanism and republicanism in Machiavelli; the radicalism of Locke, and the contributions to the woman’s cause by John Stuart Mill. The new edition includes two important liberal thinkers, Mary Wollstonecraft, the founder of liberal feminism and the other, Immanuel Kant, a de-ontological liberal; along with an Appendix on John Rawls.