Political Philosophy The Essential Texts

Ideal for survey courses in social and political philosophy, this volume is a substantially abridged and slightly altered version of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy (OUP, 2001). Offering coverage from antiquity to the present, Political Philosophy: The Essential
Texts is a historically organized collection of the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. It moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle) through the medieval period (Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith,
Hamilton and Madison, Kant). The book includes work from major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Marx and Engels, Mill) and twentieth-century theorists (Rawls, Nozick, Foucault, Habermas, Nussbaum) and also presents a variety of notable documents and addresses, including the Declaration of
Independence, the Bill of Rights, and speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments.
An especially valuable feature of this volume is that the works of each author are introduced with an engaging essay by a leading contemporary authority. These introductions include Richard Kraut on Plato and Aristotle; Paul J. Weithman on Aquinas; Roger D. Masters on Machiavelli; Jean Hampton
on Hobbes; A. John Simmons on Locke; Joshua Cohen on Rousseau and Rawls; Donald W. Livingston on Hume; Charles L. Griswold, Jr., on Adam Smith; Bernard E. Brown on Hamilton and Madison; Paul Guyer on Kant; Steven B. Smith on Hegel; Richard Miller on Marx and Engels; Jeremy Waldron on Mill; Thomas
Christiano on Nozick; Thomas A. McCarthy on Foucault and Habermas; and Eva Feder Kittay on Nussbaum.

This book is an abbreviated version of Cahn's Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy (OUP 2002). Like that book, it includes the major writings, historically organized, from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy, moving from classical through medieval views to modern perspectives. It also includes major nineteenth-century thinkers as well as twentieth-century theorists. The works of each philosopher are introduced with a substantative essay written by a leading contemporary authority.

* Unabridged selections; Preface; PLATO; Introduction, Richard Kraut; * Defence of Socrates: ; * Crito: ; Republic: ; ARISTOTLE; Introduction, Richard Kraut; Politics: ; THOMAS AQUINAS; Introduction, Paul J. Weithman; Summa Theologiae: ; NICCOL'O MACHIAVELLI; Introduction, Roger D. Masters; The Prince: ; Discourses: ; THOMAS HOBBES; Introduction, Jean Hampton; Leviathan: ; JOHN LOCKE; Introduction, A. John Simmons; Second Treatise of Government: ; JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU; Introduction, Joshua Cohen; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality: ; Of the Social Contract: ; DAVID HUME; Introduction, Donald W. Livingston; Of the Original Contract: ; ADAM SMITH; Introduction, Charles L. Griswold, Jr.; The Wealth of Nations: ; ALEXANDER HAMILTON and JAMES MADISON; Introduction, Bernard E. Brown; The Federalist Papers: ; IMMANUEL KANT; Introduction, Paul Guyer; Perpetual Peace: ; G.W.F. HEGEL; Introduction, Steven B. Smith; Philosophy of Right: ; The Philosophy of History: ; KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS; Introduction, Richard Miller; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: ; The German Ideology: ; Manifesto of the Communist Party: ; A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: ; JOHN STUART MILL; Introduction, Jeremy Waldron; On Liberty: ; JOHN RAWLS; Introduction, Joshua Cohen; A Theory of Justice: ; ROBERT NOZICK; Introduction, Thomas Christiano; Anarchy, State, and Utopia: ; MICHEL FOUCAULT; Introduction, Thomas A. McCarthy; Power/Knowledge: ; J"URGEN HABERMAS; Introduction, Thomas A. McCarthy; * Three Normative Models of Democracy: ; * On the Internal Relation Between the Rule of Law and Democracy: ; MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM; Introduction, Eva Feder Kittay; * The Feminist Critique of Liberalism: ; DOCUMENTS AND ADDRESSES; * THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE BILL OF RIGHTS; ABRAHAM LINCOLN; * Gettysburg Address: ; * Second Inaugural Address: ; MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.; * Letter from a Birmingham City Jail: ; * The March on Washington Address: