Bibliography for Classical and Modern Political Theory

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Bibliography for Classical and Modern Political Theory

Bibliography: Arranged by Author, Historical Periods, and Themes

Introduction to Political Theory: On Thinking Theoretically

Arnhart, Larry Political Questions: Political Philosophy from Plato to Rawls (Prospect Heights, Il.: Waveland Press, 1993)
Beck, Robert N. Handbook in Social Philosophy(New York: MacMillan Publishers, 1979)
Bowie, Norman E. and Robert L. Simon, The Individual and the Poltical Order: An Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1986)
Dunn, John Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
Gunnell, John Between Philosophy and Politics (Amherst, Ma.: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986)
Gunnell, John G. Political Theory: Tradition and Interpretation (Cambridge, Mass. Winthrop Publishers, 1979)
Herson, Lawrence J.R. The Politics of Ideas: Political Theory and American Public Policy (Homewood, Il.: The Dorsey Press, 1984)
Kuper, Jessica ed. Political Science and Political Theory (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987)
Plant, Raymond Modern Political Thought (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991)
Spragens, Thomas A. Understanding Political Theory (New York: St. Martins. Press, 1976)

General Surveys

Bowle, John Western Political Thought: From the Origins to Rousseau ( London: Barnes and Noble, 1961
Brown, Robert ed. Classical Political Theories: From Plato to Marx ( New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1990)
Foster, Michael B. Masters of Political Thought: Volume one . Plato to Machiavelli ( New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941)
Hacker, Andrew Poltical Theory: Philosophy, Ideology and Science (New York: The MacMillan and Company, 1961). Quite traditional but very dependable account.
Losco, Joseph & Leonard Williams, eds.Political Theory: Classic Writings, Contermporary Views (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992)
Luthy, Herbert From Calvin to Rousseau: Tradition and Modernity in Socio-Political Thought from the Reformation to the French Revolution (New York: Basic Books, 1970)
Sabine, George, A History of Political Theory (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961)
Sibley, Mulford Q. Poltical Ideas and Ideologies: A History of Poltical Thought (New York: Harper and Row, 1970)
Strauss, Leo and Joseph Cropsey eds, History of Political Philosophy (Rand McNally and Company, 1972.
Tarnas, Richard The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
Wolin, Sheldon Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought (Boston, Ma.: Little, Brown and Co., 1960). This remains one of the great interpretatyive works in political thought. It is intellectually difficult and very exciting.

Ancients

Greeks

Dickinson, G. Lowes The Greek View of Life ( New York: Collier Books, 1961)
Farrar, Cynthia The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Democratic Athens (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Finley, M. I. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (New York: Penguin Books, 1980). One of the great historians. One more victim of the McCarthy period of the fifties.
Finley, M. I. Democracy Ancient and Modern (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985)
Finley, M. I. Politics in the Ancient World New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Freeman, Kathleen. The Murder of Heroes: And Other Trials From the Athenian Law Courts (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1963)
Greene, David Greek Political Theory: The Image of Man in Thuycides and Plato (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1950)
Guthrie, W.K.C. The Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1975)
Vernant, Jean-Pierre The Origins of Greek Thought (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982)

Sophocles

Sophocles, The Theban Plays ( New York: Penguin, 1988)

Thucydides

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (New York: Modern Library, 1951)
Woodruff, Paul. Thucydides: On Justice, Power and Human Nature (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993)

The Pre-Socratics

Cornford, F. M. Before and After Socrates New York: Cambridge University Press, 1964) Mourelatos, A.P.D. The Pre-Socratics (New York: Anchor Books, 1974)

Socrates

Plato

Barker, Sir Earnest The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle (New York: Dover, 1959) Still a very dependable interpetation of Plato and Aristotle.
Nettleship, Richard Lewis Lectures on the Republic of Plato (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1968)
Plato The Laws of Plato Translated with note by Thomas L. Pangle (New York: Basic Books, 1980)
Plato Great Dialogues of Plato ( New York: New American Library, 1984)
Plato, The Republic Translated by Richard W. Sterling and William C. Scott (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1985)
Taylor, A. E. Plato: The Man and his Work (New York: Meridian Books Inc., 1980)

Aristotle

Rome

Cicero

Collapse of Rome

St. Augustine

Middle Ages

Surveys

Norman F. Cantor, Civilization of the Middle Ages (New York: Harper Perennial, 1993)

St. Thomas Aquinas

Marsilius of Padua

Renaissance and Reformation

Elton, G. R., ed. The Reformation: 1520-1559 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976)
Hay, Denys ed. The Renaissance: 1493-1520 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976). Superb collection of essays.
Hexter, J. H. The Vision of Polittics on the Eve of the Reformation: More, Machiavelli and Seyessel ( New York: Basic Books Inc., 1973)
Plumb, J. H. ed., Renaissance Profiles (New York, Harper & Row, 1961)
Ross, James Bruce and Mary Martin McLauglin ed. The Portable Renaissance Reader (New York: Penguin Books, 1981)
Machiavelli
- Anglo, Sydney Machiavelli: A Dissection (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969) li>Ascoli, Albert Russell and Victoria Kahn eds. Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literarture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)
- Bock, Giselat et al. , Machiavelli and Republicanism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
- Bondanella, Peter and Mark Musa eds. The Portable Machiavelli (New York, Penguin, 1979)
- De Grazia, Sebastian Machiavelli in Hell (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989
- Fleisher, Martin ed. Machiavelli and the Nature of Poltiical Thought (New York: Atheneum, 1972)
- Hale, J. R. Machiavelli and Renaisance Italy (New York, Collier Books, 1960)
- Machiavelli, Nicollo Machiavelli:The Prince: A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Interpretations, Marginalia (/strong)(W.W. Norton and Co.,1992) <
- Pitikin, Hanna Fenichel Fortuna is a Women: Gender and Poltiics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)
Martin Luther

John Calvin

Puritanism and Constitutional Government

Thomas Hobbes

Norberto Bobbio, Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition(Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1993)
John Locke

John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'", (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
James Tully, A Discourse on Property: John Locke and his Adversaries, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980)
The Englightenment

Hazard, Paul European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: From Montesquieu to Lessing (New York: The World Publishing Company, 1963)
Keohane, Nanerl O. Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Englightenment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Miller, James Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984)
Masters, Roger D. The Political Philosophy of Rousseau ( New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968)
Rousseau, Jean Jacques Political Writings trans. Frederick Watkins (Madison, Wi. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1986)
Rousseau, Jean Jacques On the Social Contract: with Geneva Manuscript and Political Economy ( New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978)

Edmund Burke

O'Brien, Conor Cruise The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992)

Adam Smith

Smith, Adam An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970)
Smith, Adam The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1976)
Winch, Donald Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978)

David Hume

Forbes, David Hume's Philosophical Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Hume, David Essays : Moral, Political and Literary (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985)
Miller, David Philosophy and Ideology Hume's Political Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981)

John Stuart Mill

Halliday, R.J. John Stuart Mill (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1976))
Mill, John Stuart Considerations On Representative Government New York: The Library of Liberal Arts, 1958)
Mill, John Stuart (Mansfield, Sue ed.) The Subjection of Women (Arlington Heights, Il.: Harlan Davidson, 1980)
Mill, John Stuart Utilitarianism, On Liberty, Essay on Bentham (Cleveland: The World Publishing Co., 1962)
Ryan, Alan John Stuart Mill ( New York: Pantheon Books, 1970)
Thomas, William Mill (New York: Oxford Univesty Press, 1985)
Thompson, Dennis F. John Stuart Mill and Representative Government ( Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976)

Karl Marx

Bottomore, Tom Karl Marx (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979)
Bottomore, Tom ed. Modern Interpretations of Marx ( Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981)
Caute, David ed. Essential Writings of Karl Marx (New York: Collier Books, 1967)
Duncan, Graeme Marx and Mill: Two Views of Social Conflict and Social Harmony ( Cambridge: Cambridge Universty Press, 1973)
Tucker, Robert C. ed. The Marx-Engles Reader (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., Inc, 1972)

Survey Nineteenth Century

Peter Gay, The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (New York, W.W. Norton, 1994)

Contemporary Political Philosophy and Political Ideology

Ed Gillespie and Bob Schellhas,eds. The Contract With America (New York, Times Books, 1994)

Contemporary Political Theory (Twentieth Century)

Shalmo Avineri and Avner de-Shalit, Communitarianism and Individualism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Contemporary Feminism

Twentieth Century Liberalism

Ackerman, Bruce A. Social Justice in the Liberal State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980)
Galston, William A. Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Gerber, Larry G. The Limits of Liberalism (New York: New York University Press, 1984)
Gless, Darryl J. and Barbara Herrnstein Smith, ed., The Politics of Liberal Education (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992)
MacLean, Douglas Liberalism Reconsidered Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1983)
Riker, William Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Choice (Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1982)

Twentieth Century Conservatism

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