The Political Classics Green to Dworkin

by Forsyth, Murray; Keens-Soper, Maurice

• ISBN13: 9780198780946
• ISBN10: 019878094X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Providing a lively and informed introduction to the last hundred years of political thinking--from T.H. Green's lectures to Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously --the third volume in the successful Political Classics series has been designed to enable all students of political ideas to gain a fuller appreciation of the great works which form the foundation of the subject. Besides giving a full analysis of the contents of each text, this book also highlights what makes the texts of central importance to an understanding of political philosophy. The twelve chapters concentrate on the ideas contained in the texts, rather than on the lives of their writers, and each chapter is supplemented with useful suggestions for further reading.

Table of Contents

Introduction Political Reasoning in a Time of Upheaval	p. 1
Thomas Hill Green: Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation	p. 17
Georges Sorel: Reflections on Violence	p. 37
Conclusion	p. 54
Antonio Gramsci: The Prison Notebooks	p. 58
Bibliographical Note	p. 76
Carl Schmitt: The Concept of the Political	p. 78
Bibliographical Note	p. 98
Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism in Politics	p. 100
Bibliographical Note	p. 119
Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty	p. 121
Bibliographical Note	p. 141
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition	p. 143
Bibliographical Note	p. 167
Friedrich August Von Hayek: The Constitution of Liberty	p. 169
Herbert Hart: The Concept of Law	p. 190
Bibliographical Note	p. 216
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 239
Bibliographical Note	p. 239
Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State, and Utopia	p. 241
Conclusion	p. 260
Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously	p. 263
Bibliographical Note	p. 285
Index	p. 289
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