Table of Contents
Introduction: Thinking about Politics ix
Book 1 Herodotus to Machiavelli
Part I The Classical Conception
Chapter 1 Why Herodotus? 5
Chapter 2 Plato and Antipolitics 31
Chapter 3 Aristotle: Politics Is Not Philosophy 71
Chapter 4 Roman Insights: Polybius and Cicero 111
Chapter 5 Augustine's Two Cities 149
Part II The Christian World
Preface to Part II 187
Chapter 6 Between Augustine and Aquinas 193
Chapter 7 Aquinas and Synthesis 224
Chapter 8 The Fourteenth-Century Interregnum 257
Chapter 9 Humanism 291
Chapter 10 The Reformation 321
Chapter 11 Machiavelli 354
Notes to Book One 391
Book 2 Hobbes to the Present
Preface to Book Two 403
Part I Modernity
Chapter 12 Thomas Hobbes 411
Chapter 13 John Locke and Revolution 453
Chapter 14 Republicanism 497
Chapter 15 Rousseau 532
Chapter 16 The American Founding 577
Chapter 17 The French Revolution and Its Critics 616
Chapter 18 Hegel: The Modern State as the Work of Spirit 652
Chapter 19 Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham and James and John Stuart Mill 695
Chapter 20 Tocqueville and Democracy 729
Chapter 21 Karl Marx 770
Part II The World after Marx
Preface to Part II 809
Chapter 22 The Twentieth Century and Beyond 815
Chapter 23 Empire and Imperialism 843
Chapter 24 Socialisms 879
Chapter 25 Marxism, Fascism, Dictatorship 911
Chapter 26 Democracy in the Modern World 946
Chapter 27 Global Peace and the Human Future 978
Acknowledgments 1013
Notes to Book Two 1015
Bibliography 1029
Further Reading 1041
Index 1053