An easy to use A-Z guide to the ideas, lives and works of some of the most influential thinkers in political thought, this is essential reading for politics and philosophy students. Covers all major figures such as Aristotle, Karl Marx, Simone De Beauvoir, Machiavelli, Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Michel Foucault This book introduces the life and thought of major figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day. Alphabetical list of contents vii Preface ix Plato (427--347 BCE) 3(8) Aristotle (384--322 BCE) 11(8) Cicero (106--43 BCE) 19(4) St Augustine of Hippo (354--430) 23(6) St Thomas Aquinas (1225--74) 29(6) Nicolo Machiavelli (1469--1527) 35(8) Sir Thomas More (1478--1535) 43(3) Thomas Hobbes (1588--1679) 46(8) James Harrington (1611--77) 54(3) John Locke (1632--1704) 57(7) Montesquieu (1689--1755) 64(4) David Hume (1711--76) 68(5) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712--78) 73(7) Immanuel Kant (1724--1804) 80(3) Edmund Burke (1729--97) 83(4) Tom Paine (1737--1809) 87(3) Johann Gottfried Herder (1744--1803) 90(3) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759--97) 93(3) William Godwin (1756--1836) 96(3) G.W.F. Hegel (1770--1831) 99(7) Jeremy Bentham (1748--1832) 106(5) `Publius' and The Federalist Papers 111(7) Charles Fourier (1772--1837) and Utopian Socialism 118(4) Karl Marx (1818--83) 122(9) Alexis de Tocqueville (1805--59) 131(4) John Stuart Mill (1806--73) 135(5) Herbert Spencer (1820--1903) 140(3) T.H. Green (1836--82) 143(3) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844--1900) 146(5) Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842--1921) and Anarchism 151(4) Georges Sorel (1847--1922) 155(3) Eduard Bernstein (1850--1932) 158(6) Max Weber (1864--1920) 164(6) Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870--1924) 170(4) Benito Mussolini (1883--1945) and Fascism 174(6) Carl Schmitt (1888--1985) 180(4) Hannah Arendt (1906--75) 184(3) Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909--97) 187(3) Friedrich von Hayek (1899--1992) 190(3) Mohandas Gandhi (1869--1948) 193(2) Sir Karl Popper (1902--94) 195(4) Michael Oakeshott (1901--90) 199(3) Simone de Beauvoir (1908--86) and Second Wave Feminism 202(4) Herbert Marcuse (1898--1979) and the Frankfurt School 206(5) Frantz Fanon (1925--61) 211(6) Michel Foucault (1926--84) 217(4) John Rawls (1921--2002) 221(4) Robert Nozick (1938--2002) 225(3) Jurgen Habermas (1929--) 228(6) Jean--Francois Lyotard (1924--98) 234(5) Glossary 239(11) Index 250