Princeton Readings in Political Thought

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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).