The Key Texts of Political Philosophy

by Thomas Pangle, Timothy Burns, Timothy W. Burns

Book Overview

This book introduces readers to analytical interpretation of seminal writings and thinkers in the history of political thought, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Chronologically arranged, each chapter in the book is devoted to the work of a single thinker. The selected texts together engage with 2000 years of debate on fundamental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521185009
• ISBN13: 9780521185004
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"