文档介绍：Modern Political Thought
Modern Political Thought: A reader is an excellent introduction to the key works of
the major political thinkers from Machiavelli to Marx. It draws together the most
important parts of seminal works of political thought such as Hobbes’s Leviathan,
Locke’s Treatises, Rousseau’s The Social Contract, and Mill’s On Liberty.
This text will provide students with:
• substantial extracts of seminal texts from Machiavelli’s The Prince to Marx’s
Capital;
• accessible introductions to each thinker, explaining their lives and works, and
placing them in the historical context in which they worked and wrote;
• insights into the relationship between the different works of each thinker.
Political thinkers included in this book:
Machiavelli; Milton and the Levellers; Hobbes; Locke; Hume; Montesquieu; Smith;
Rousseau; Madison and Hamilton; Burke; Paine; Wollstonecraft; Bentham; Mill;
Marx.
John Gingell is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College
Northampton. Adrian Little is Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths College,
University of London. Christopher Winch is Professor of Philosophy of Education
at University College Northampton.
Modern Political
Thought
A reader
Edited by John Gingell, Adrian
Little and Christopher Winch
London and New York
First published 2000 by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
© 2000 Selection and editorial matter, John Gingell, Adrian Little and Christopher Winch
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