A Textual Introduction To Social and Political TheoryRichard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition’s principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency in which to debate the problems facing modern societies. Each of the twelve chapters combines extracts from two (or in one case three) political philosophers on a key political concept with a commentary essay. Each chapter does more than just introduce the reader to the classics; it also explains, via the commentary essay, the key concepts of political debate, and the historical contexts which led the thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society. |
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... Mill on democracy JOHN STREET 205 9 Marx and Lenin on communism DAVID HOUGHTON 229 10 Bakunin and Kropotkin on anarchism TONY KEMP - WELCH 261 11 J. S. Mill and Durkheim on individualism ANGUS ROSS 281 12 Weber and Michels on ...
... Mill on democracy JOHN STREET 205 9 Marx and Lenin on communism DAVID HOUGHTON 229 10 Bakunin and Kropotkin on anarchism TONY KEMP - WELCH 261 11 J. S. Mill and Durkheim on individualism ANGUS ROSS 281 12 Weber and Michels on ...
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Contents
Aristotle and Aquinas on community and natural | 35 |
Machiavelli Milton and Hobbes on liberty | 63 |
Locke and Aristotle on property | 91 |
Rousseau and Wollstonecraft on sexual equality | 123 |
Kant and Hegel on the state and civil society | 155 |
Burke and de Tocqueville on conservatism | 179 |
Rousseau and James Mill on democracy | 205 |
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