Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts Since Plato - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0691036888 ISBN 13: 9780691036885

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

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).

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"Critics might question putting the work of Plato and Malcolm X together between the same covers, but the contrast simply suggests the wide range of thinkers one finds in this collection. Plato, Thucydides, St. Augustine, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon, Leo Strauss, Max Weber: All and many more can be found here, represented by substantial excerpts from their most characteristic and important writings."--The Washington Times

Contenuti

	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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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691036888
• ISBN 13: 9780691036885
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 740
• Redattore: Cohen Mitchell, Fermon Nicole
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile