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Political Theorists in Context
By Chris Sparks, Stuart Isaacs
270 pages
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Synopsis
Focusing on the historical context in which political theorists have developed their thinking, this textbook provides an invaluable introduction to students of political thought. The authors address a series of canonical major thinkers in the context of three world-changing epochs: the English, French and Industrial revolutions. The theorists' ideas are assessed with reference to the politics of their time and show how they responded to, or interacted with, the political events and issues of their ...
Focusing on the historical context in which political theorists have developed their thinking, this textbook provides an invaluable introduction to students of political thought. The authors address a series of canonical major thinkers in the context of three world-changing epochs: the English, French and Industrial revolutions. The theorists' ideas are assessed with reference to the politics of their time and show how they responded to, or interacted with, the political events and issues of their day.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Part I - A World Turned Upside Down: the English Revolution 7
- Chapter 1 - John Milton 9
- Chapter 2 - The Levellers and the Diggers 37
- Revision Notes 64
- Chapter 3 - Thomas Hobbes 67
- Chapter 4 - John Locke 87
- Part II - Reason and Revolt: the French Revolution 107
- Chapter 5 - Montesquieu 109
- Chapter 6 - Jean Jacques Rousseau 137
- Chapter 7 - Edmund Burke 165
- Part III - All That is Solid Melts into Air: the Industrial Revolution 183
- Chapter 8 - John Stuart Mill 185
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction 1
- Part I - A World Turned Upside Down: the English Revolution 7
- Chapter 1 - John Milton 9
- Chapter 2 - The Levellers and the Diggers 37
- Revision Notes 64
- Chapter 3 - Thomas Hobbes 67
- Chapter 4 - John Locke 87
- Part II - Reason and Revolt: the French Revolution 107
- Chapter 5 - Montesquieu 109
- Chapter 6 - Jean Jacques Rousseau 137
- Chapter 7 - Edmund Burke 165
- Part III - All That is Solid Melts into Air: the Industrial Revolution 183
- Chapter 8 - John Stuart Mill 185
- Chapter 9 - Karl Marx 217
- Chapter 10 - Mikhail Bakunin and the Anarchists 237
- Index 257