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Modern Political Thought

Modern Political Thought: A reader is an excellent introduction to the key works of

the major political thinkers from Machiavelli to Marx. It draws together the most

important parts of seminal works of political thought such as Hobbes’s Leviathan,

Locke’s Treatises, Rousseau’s The Social Contract, and Mill’s On Liberty.

This text will provide students with:

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substantial extracts of seminal texts from Machiavelli’s The Prince to Marx’s

Capital ;

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accessible introductions to each thinker, explaining their lives and works, and

placing them in the historical context in which they worked and wrote;

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insights into the relationship between the different works of each thinker.

Political thinkers included in this book:

Machiavelli; Milton and the Levellers; Hobbes; Locke; Hume; Montesquieu; Smith;

Rousseau; Madison and Hamilton; Burke; Paine; Wollstonecraft; Bentham; Mill;

Marx.

John Gingell is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College

Northampton. Adrian Little is Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths College,

University of London. Christopher Winch is Professor of Philosophy of Education

at University College Northampton.

Modern Political

Thought

A reader

Edited by John Gingell, Adrian

Little and Christopher Winch

London and New York

First published 2000 by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.

form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system,

without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Modern Political Thought: a reader / edited by John Gingell, Adrian

Little & Christopher Winch.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Political science – History. I. Gingell, John. II. Little, Adrian. III. Winch, Christopher.

JA83.M636 2000

320–dc21 99-37892

CIP

ISBN 0-415-19461-X (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-19462-8 (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-00587-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-17499-2 (Glassbook Format)

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