This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of
political thought, tracing the development of arguments and
controversies from ancient Greece, through different forms of
community, state and empire, to today's global concerns. Bruce
Haddock highlights the bewildering variety of contexts that have
framed political thinking, yet also displays structural features
that have proved to be remarkably stable over time. An important
theme in the book is the need to see political philosophy, even in
its most abstract formulations, as a response to historically
contingent circumstances, without limiting its relevance to those
circumstances. The emphasis throughout is on political thinking as
a response to hard choices. Major thinkers covered include Plato,
Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Locke,
Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Marx,
Mill, Lenin, Schmitt, Nietzsche, Foucault, Oakeshott and Rawls.
The book treats political philosophy and theory as a tentative
engagement with a fractured and controversial past. Yet political
thinking remains the exercise of a burden of a responsibility that
is inescapable for us. Haddock introduces a history that continues
to shape our understanding of ourselves as political and historical
creatures.
A History of Political Thought will be of interest to students and
scholars of politics, history and philosophy.
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