History of Western Political Thought

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Adam Smiths
Ancient Greece
ancient political systems
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Civil Society
comparative political thought analysis
Contemporary Societies
contract
crowd
Crowd Leaders
Crowd Politics
despotism
Direct Democracy
Economic efficiency
enlightened
Enlightened Political Thought
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Feudal Societies
french
George III
Good Life
Hobbes's Men
Hobbes’s Men
Hypnotised Subject
Individual thinkers
JOHN STUART MILL
LE BON
leaders
liberalism critique
Machiavelli's Political Thought
Machiavelli’s Political Thought
Medieval Societies
Mind's Job
Mind’s Job
modern state formation
natural
Political communities
political philosophy
Primal Horde
Rational Egotist
revolution
rights
Salus Populi
Salus Populi Suprema Lex
social
social contract tradition
sovereignty theory
Vice Versa
Western political thought
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415119627
  • Weight: 1440g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 1998
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book:
* traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century
* focuses on individual thinkers and texts
* includes 40 biographies of key political thinkers
* offers original views of theorists and highlights those which may have been unjustly neglected
* develops the wider themes of political thought and the relations between thinkers over time.

J. S. McClelland is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Nottingham. He has held visiting posts at the University of Indiana at Bloomington and Sacramental State University, California. His previous publications include The French Right: From De Maistre to Maurras and The Crowd: From Plato to Canetti.

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