Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato / Edition 1

Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0691036896
ISBN-13:
9780691036892
Pub. Date:
03/24/1996
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10:
0691036896
ISBN-13:
9780691036892
Pub. Date:
03/24/1996
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato / Edition 1

Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato / Edition 1

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Overview

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).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691036892
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 03/24/1996
Edition description: Older Edition
Pages: 760
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Thinking Politically: An Introduction 1

1 Thucydides

Pericles' Funeral Oration 13

2 Plato

The Apology 19

The Republic 39

3 Aristotle

The Politics 107

4 Cicero

On The Republic 124

5 St. Augustine

City of God 133

6 St. Thomas Aquinas

Politics and Law 144

7 Christine de Pizan

The Book of the City of Ladies 153

8 Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince 167

Discourses on Livy 188

9 Martin Luther

The Christian in Society 194

10 John Calvin

God and Political Duty 200

11 Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan 205

12 John Locke

Second Treatise of Government 243

13 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the Social Contract 280

Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men 293

14 Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations 314

15 Publius

The Federalist Papers 335

16 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 347

17 Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France 349

18 Marie-Olympes de Gouges

Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens 356

19 Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 362

20 Jeremy Bentham

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation 371

21 John Stuart Mill

On Liberty 375

On the Subjection of Women 388

22 Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America 398

23 G. W. F. Hegel

Philosophy of Right 425

24 Karl Marx

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy 435

Estranged Labour 438

The Communist Manifesto 448

After the Revolution 464

Capital 465

25 Friedrich Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morals 467

26 Max Weber

Politics as a Vocation 499

27 Gaetano Mosca

The Ruling Class 512

28 Robert Michels

Political Parties 524

29 V. I. Lenin

What Is to Be Done? 530

The State and Revolution 534

30 Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents 544

Totem and Taboo 551

Why War? 556

31 Emma Goldman

Victims of Morality 566

32 Benito Mussolini

Fascism 571

33 Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalitarianism 575

34 George Orwell

Politics and the English Language 591

35 Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex 601

36 Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth 615

37 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail 623

38 Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet 636

39 Leo Strauss

What Is Political Philosophy? 642

40 Michael Walzer

In Defense of Equality 656

41 John Rawls

A Theory of Justice 669

42 Robert Nozick

Anarchy, State and Utopia 698

43 Jurgen Habermas

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