Book Series in Philosophy
Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. She gained fame for her historical study of…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34330-5 (Routledge)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a pivotal thinker in the history of political philosophy, and in that of thought and literature more generally. Making major contributions…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35083-9 (Routledge)
John Rawls
Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers
John Rawls (1921-2002) is, arguably, the most important political philosopher of our time. It is commonly observed that the publication in 1971 of his treatise… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-22995-1 (Routledge)
Antonio Gramsci
Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers
From the sociology of modern capitalism to state theory and cultural and media studies, Gramsci's ideas have become a central component of mainstream social and… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-21747-7 (Routledge)
Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought
Critical Assessments: Second Series
This collection addresses fundamental themes in Marx's social and political thought. It covers key controversies in the analysis of Marx's overall intellectual development, the influence… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19326-9 (Routledge)
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John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought
Critical Assessments
This collection covers the breadth of Mill's work in social theory and political economy, including his ethics, liberalism, theory of government, methodology and feminism. It… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14073-7 (Routledge)
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G.W.F. Hegel
Critical Assessments
G.W.F. Hegel(1770-1831), arguably the greatest philosopher of the nineteenth century, decisively influenced the direction of all subsequent European thought. Variously understood as a theist and… read more1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-02003-9 (Routledge)
Jeremy Bentham
Critical Assessments
Bentham scholarship has concentrated on certain aspects of his thought: this collection reflects that bias. Most of the articles are published since 1950, but those… read more1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04654-1 (Routledge)
Thomas Hobbes
Critical Assessments
Thomas Hobbes is arguably the greatest of all English philosophers. In the second half of the twentieth century, he has been subject to sustained critical…
read more1992 | Hardback: 978-0-415-02004-6 (Routledge)
John Locke
Critical Assessments
This work is the second in the Routledge Series of Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers. The series presents a comprehensive selection of the critical… read more1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-00847-1 (Routledge)
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