The Oxford handbook of the history of political philosophy / edited by George Klosko.
Contributor(s): Klosko, George.
Series: Oxford handbooks in philosophy: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013Description: xiv, 840 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199679539.Other title: History of political philosophy.Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | JA71 .O949 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000020276 |
First published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The contextual approach -- The Straussian approach -- Postmodern approaches to the history of political thought -- The value of the history of political philosophy -- History of political philosophy as a discipline -- The origins of political philosophy -- Classical political philosophy : Plato and Aristotle -- Hellenistic political theory -- Early Christian political philosophy -- The influence of Roman law -- Arabic contributions to medieval political theory -- Medieval political theory c.1000-1500 -- Renaissance political philosophy -- Political thought in the age of the Reformation -- The school of Salamanca -- The early modern foundations of classic liberalism -- Absolutism -- Enlightenment political philosophy -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Early nineteenth-century liberalism -- German idealism -- Early European socialism -- The Marxian tradition -- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century liberalism -- Political philosophy and the idea of a social science -- Contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy -- Contemporary continental political thought -- Political philosophy in a globalizing world -- Democracy -- Rights -- The state -- Sovereignty -- The social contract (contract of government) -- Citizenship -- Property -- Equality -- Freedom -- Domination and slavery -- Imperialism -- The idea of the welfare state -- Libertarianism -- Religious toleration -- Republicanism -- Political obligation -- Anarchism -- Feminism -- Animal rights and political theory -- Confucian political philosophy -- The Muslim tradition of political philosophy -- Hindu political philosophy.
Fifty distinguished contributors survey the entire history of political philosophy. They consider questions about how the subject should best be studied; they examine historical periods and great theorists in their intellectual contexts; and they discuss aspects of the subject that transcend periods, such as democracy, the state, and imperialism.
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