Minerva's owl : the tradition of western political thought / Jeffrey Abramson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abramson, Jeffrey B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--History.

Political science.

History.

Physical Description:

388 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: The Canon of Political Thought 1

1 Plato's Republic: The Debate over Justice Begins 17

2 The Students Revolt against Utopia 36

3 Out of the Cave and into the Light-and Back Again? 61

4 Beyond Plato's Tragic Republic 83

5 Aristotle's Ethics: The Habits of Virtue 87

6 Aristotle's Politics: Severed Hands and Political Animals 105

7 Augustine and the Problem of Evil 126

8 Machiavelli's Dirty Hands 145

9 Hobbes and the Kingdom of Means 169

10 Locke, Liberalism, and the Possessive Life 197

11 Rousseau and the Rustic 222

12 Rousseau and the Political 243

13 Kant's Crooked Timber 258

14 John Stuart Mill and the Demands of Individuality 279

15 Hegel, Marx, and the Owl of Minerva 301

16 The Revival of Political Theory 322.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-375) and index.

ISBN:

9780674032651

0674032659

OCLC:

261174523