History of Western Political Thought PDF Download Free – Pol Science Optional

History of Western Political Thought PDF Download Free – Pol Science Optional

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History of Western Political Thought PDF Download Free - Pol Science Optional

History of Western Political Thought Political Science Optional Book Index

Part I – The Greeks

1. ANCIENT GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT

2. SOCRATES AND PLATO

3. THE GUARDIANS OF THE STATE AND JUSTICE

4. ARISTOTLE AND THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS

Part II – Romans and Roman Catholics

5. FROM POLIS TO COSMOPOLIS

6. CHRISTIAN COSMOPOLITANISM: ST AUGUSTINE’S CITY OF GOD

7. CHRISTENDOM AND ITS LAW: ST THOMAS AQUINAS

Part III – Romans and humanists: the reinvention of sovereignty

8. THE REINVENTION OF SOVEREIGNTY: MARSILIUS OF PADUA

9. MACHIAVELLI: THE PRINCE AND THE VIRTUOUS REPUBLIC

Part IV – The theory of the social contract

10. THE RISE AND EXTRAORDINARY PERSISTENCE OF THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

11. SOCIAL CONTRACT I: THE HOBBESIAN VERSION

12. SOCIAL CONTRACT II: THE LOCKIAN VERSION

13. SOCIAL CONTRACT III: THE ROUSSEAUIST VERSION

Part V – Enlightenment and the development of the modern state

14. THE MODERNITY OF THE MODERN STATE

15. THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

16. ENLIGHTENMENT AND GOVERNMENT THROUGH LAW: MONTESQUIEU

17. THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT: JEFFERSON, CRÈVECOEUR,

HAMILTON, JAY, MADISON, PAINE

18. THE LIMITATIONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: HUME AND BURKE

Part VI – The rise of liberalism

19. THE RISE OF LIBERALISM

20. LIBERALISM COMES OF AGE: BENTHAM AND JOHN STUART MILL

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21. LIBERALISM IN MATURITY AND DECLINE: SPENCER, SUMNER AND GREEN

Part VII – Reactions to liberalism 1: Hegel—the state and dialectic

22. HEGEL AND THE HEGELIAN CONTEXT OF MARXISM

Part VIII – Reactions to liberalism 2: Socialism

23. MARXISM AND OTHER SOCIALISMS

24. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: BERNSTEIN AND CROSLAND

25. THE SYNTHESIS OF JACOBINISM AND MARXISM-BOLSHEVISM: LENIN, TROTSKY, AND STALIN

Part IX – Reactions to liberalism 3: irrationalism and anti-rationalism

26. THE MORAL EXCLUSIVENESS OF NATIONALISM: HERDER

27. THE ELITIST CRITIQUE OF DEMOCRACY: PARETO AND MICHELS

28. LIBERALISM’S SPECIAL ENEMIES: THE CROWD AND ITS THEORISTS

29. THE LEADER AND HIS CROWD: SIGMUND FREUD’S GROUP

PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO (1921)

30 FASCISM, OR BEING REVOLUTIONARY WITHOUT BEING MARXIST

31. CONSERVATISM: MAURRAS AND OAKESHOTT

32. THINKING ABOUT THINKING, AND THE LAPSE INTO DISCOURSES

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