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Subtitle: Book One -A History of Political Thought Herotodus to
Machiavelli and Book Two Hobbes to the Present, Liverright Publishing, N.Y.,
2012, 399 and 1104 pgs., index, bibliography
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Reviewer comment - There is a review in The Economist, December 15,
2012. The author includes his analysis of all the leading political
philosophers one usually considers. This is his analysis, in contrast to
compendiums that are mostly extracts from the selected thinkers' works. I can
hope only to comment on a few of the subject writers.
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Introduction
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Book One: Herodotus to Machiavelli
Part I: The Classical Conception
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Chapter 1: Why Herodotus?
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Chapter 2: Plato and Antipolitics
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Chapter 3: Aristotle: Politics Is Not Philosophy
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Chapter 4: Roman Insights: Polybius and Cicero
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Chapter 5: Augustine's Two Cities
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Part II: The Christian World
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Preface to Part II
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Chapter 6: Between Augustine and Aquinas
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Chapter 7: Aquinas and Synthesis
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Chapter 8: The Fourteenth-Century Interregnum
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Chapter 9: Humanism
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Chapter 10: The Reformation
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Chapter 11: Machiavelli
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Book Two: From Hobbes to the Present
Preface to Book Two
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Part I: Modernity
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Chapter 12: Thomas Hobbs
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Chapter 13: John Locke and Revolution
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Chapter 14: Repblicanism
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Chapter 15: Rousseau
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Chapter 16: The American Founding
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Chapter 17: The French Revolution and Its Critics
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Chapter 18: Hegel: the Modern State as the Work of Spirit
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Chapter 19: Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham and James and John Stuart
Mill
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Chapter 20: Tocqueville and Democracy
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Chapter 21: Karl Marx
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Part II: The World after Marx
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Preface to Part II
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Chapter 22: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Chapter 23: Empire and Imperialism
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Chapter 24: Socialism
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Chapter 25: Marxism, Fascism, Dictatorship
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Chapter 26: Democracy in the Modern World
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Chapter 27: Global Peace and the Human Future
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Plato and Aristotle
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Polybius and Cicero
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Acquinas
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Machiavelli
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Hobbes
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Locke
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Hegel
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Bentham
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Marx
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Twentieth Century writers
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