Overview
Selections from the most important works of eleven of the greatest political theorists. This compact text is comprised of chapters from the more comprehensive anthology, GREAT POLITICAL THINKERS: FROM PLATO TO THE PRESENT.
Synopsis
Selections from the most important works of eleven of the greatest political theorists. This compact text is comprised of chapters from the more comprehensive anthology, GREAT POLITICAL THINKERS: FROM PLATO TO THE PRESENT.
Booknews
This is an abridgement of , presenting the work of 12 major thinkers from Plato onward, including Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes, and Marx. Chapters here are exactly as they appear in ; only the number of chapters is abridged. Each thinker is critically analyzed and placed in his historical context, and a key reading is presented. For this second edition, a new chapter on 20th-century political thinker Fredrich Hayek has been added, and there are significant revisions to the chapters on Mill and Rawls. This reader lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)