A History of Western Political Thought
Author | : J. S. McClelland |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 2005-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134812103 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134812108 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia. Written with students of the history of political thought in mind, the book: * traces the development of political thought from Ancient Greece to the late twentieth century * focuses on individual thinkers and texts * includes 40 biographies of key political thinkers * offers original views of theorists and highlights those which may have been unjustly neglected * develops the wider themes of political thought and the relations between thinkers over time.