Princeton Readings in Political Thought : Essential Texts since Plato

ISBN 10: 0691036896 / ISBN 13: 9780691036892

Published by Princeton University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Princeton Readings in Political Thought : Essential Texts since Plato
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691036896
• ISBN 13: 9780691036892
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 2.255 pounds

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Synopsis

Princeton Readings in Political Thought is one of the most engaging and up-to-date samplers of the standard works of Western political thinking from antiquity through modern times. Organized chronologically, from Thucydides to Foucault, the book brings together forty-four selections of enduring intellectual value--key articles, book excerpts, essays, and speeches--that have shaped our understanding of Western society and politics. Readers will find this work to be an invaluable reference, and they will enjoy not only the varied selections but also the lucid introductions to each historical era and the brief sketches of each thinker.

The book includes the writings of many of the most distinguished observers of the Western experience from classical times (Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero), the Middle Ages (St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Christine de Pizan), modern times (Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, The Federalist Papers, "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen," Burke, Marie-Olympes de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Mill, de Tocqueville, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche), or the ideas of twentieth-century political philosophers and ideologists (Weber, Mosca, Michels, Lenin, Freud, Emma Goldman, Mussolini, Arendt, Orwell, de Beauvoir, Fanon, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Leo Strauss, Walzer, Rawls, Nozick, Habermas, and Foucault).

About the Author

Mitchell Cohen is professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the Graduate School of City University of New York and coeditor of Disent magazine. He is the author of The Wager of Lucien Goldmann (Princeton) and of Zion and State. Nicole Fermon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and the author of the forthcoming The Political Education of Sentiment: Rousseau's Teaching on Women and the State.