{"product_id":"the-new-history-of-political-theory-ancient-greece-to-the-modern-world-9781636672953","title":"The New History of Political Theory: Ancient","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book contains a concise presentation of the major political theories underlying the Western tradition and contemporary ideological debates in America and the world. From the Ancients, Plato and Aristotle, to contemporary Americans, Rawls and Nozick, the book examines each thinker’s conception of Human Nature, Political Society and Social Ethics. Extensive excerpts from the original writings and their relation to American political principles distinguish this valuable text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface – Acknowledgments – Introduction: What Is Political Theory? – Socrates: Political Questioning – Plato’s Perfect Republic – Aristotle: Classical Democracy – Cicero: Roman Law and Empire – St. Augustine: Christian Political Theology – St. Thomas Aquinas: Catholic Political Theory – Machiavelli: Power Politics – Thomas Hobbes: British Liberalism – John Locke: Natural Rights – Jean Jacques Rousseau: French Liberalism – Edmund Burke: Conservatism – John Stuart Mill: Intellectual Liberty– Karl Marx: Communism – V.I. Lenin: Imperialism – Sigmund Freud: Psychology and Society – Giovanni Gentile: Fascism – Mihailo Markovic: Neo-Marxism – Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition – Robert Nozick: Libertarian – John Rawls: American Liberalism – Epilogue: A (Possible) Future Political Theory: The Web of Globalism.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041821524311,"sku":"9781636672953","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781636672953.jpg?v=1750951820","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-history-of-political-theory-ancient-greece-to-the-modern-world-9781636672953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}