Fifty distinguished contributors survey the entire history of political philosophy. They consider questions about how the subject should best be studied; they examine historical periods and great theorists in their intellectual contexts; and they discuss aspects of the subject that transcend periods, such as democracy, the state, and imperialism. INDICE: Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Approaches; 1: Mark Bevir: The Contextual Approach; 2: Catherine Zuckert: The Straussian Approach; 3: Joshua Dienstag: Postmodern Approaches to the History of Political Thought; 4: Terence Ball: The Value of the History of Political Philosophy; 5: John Gunnell: History of Political Philosophy as Discipline; II Chronological Periods; 6: Danielle Allen: The Origins of Political Philosophy; 7: Daniel Devereux: Classical Political Philosophy: Plato & Aristotle; 8: Phillip Mitsis: Hellenistic Political Theory; 9: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe: Early Christian Political Philosophy; 10: Donald Kelley: Influence of Roman Law; 11: Charles Butterworth: Arabic Contributions to Medieval Political Theory; 12: Janet Coleman: Medieval Political Theory c. 1000-1500; 13: Mikael Hörnqvist: Renaissance Political Philosophy; 14: Michael Baylor: Political Thought in the Age of the Reformation; 15: Anthony Pagden: The School of Salamanca; 16: Jeffrey Collins: The Early Modern Foundations of Classic Liberalism; 17: Mark Goldie: Absolutism; 18: Richard Whatmore: Enlightenment Political Philosophy; 19: Neil McArthur: Scottish Enlightenment;20: Jeremy Jennings: Early Nineteenth-Century Liberalism; 21: Paul Redding: German Idealism; 22: Jonathan Beecher: Socialism; 23: Terrell Carver: Marxian Tradition; 24: David Weinstein: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Liberalism; 25: Peter Lassman: Political Philosophy and the Idea of a Social Science; 26: George Klosko: Contemporary Political Philosophy: Anglo-American; 27: Stephen White: Contemporary Continental Political Thought; 28: Terry Nardin: Political Philosophy in a Globalizing World; III Themes; 29: Mark Warren: Democracy; 30: Kenneth Pennington: Rights; 31: Christopher W. Morris: The State; 32: Daniel Philpott: Sovereignty; 33: Johann Sommerville: The Social Contract (Contract ofGovernment); 34: Richard Bellamy: Citizenship; 35: David Schmidtz: Property; 36: Jonathan Wolff: Equality; 37: Raymond Plant: Freedom; 38: Bernard Boxill: Douglass and Hobbes on Fear, Imagination, and Slavery; 39: Krishan Kumar: Imperialism; 40: Donald Moon: The Idea of the Welfare State; 41: Eric Mack: Libertarianism; 42: Perez Zagorin: Religious Toleration; 43: Richard Dagger: Republicanism; 44: George Klosko: Political Obligation; 45: Marshall Shatz: Anarchism; 46: Nancy Hirschmann: Feminism; 47: Julian Franklin: Animal Rights and Political Theory; IV Non-Western Perspectives; 48: David Wong: Confucian Political Philosophy; 49: Shahrough Ahkavi: The Muslim Tradition of Political Philosophy; 50: Dennis Dalton: Hindu Political Philosophy
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923880-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 785
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
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