Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought (Research Handbooks in Political Thought series)

This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical methodology, traditions, epochs, and classic authors and texts, spanning from ancient Greece until the nineteenth century. Elucidating the evolution and current state of the field, the Handbook emphasizes the value of studying the history of political ideas to gain a critical perspective on our own embedded cultural predispositions. Authors analyze various intellectual schools, such as Stoicism, Christianity, Islam, Liberalism, Republicanism, and Libertarianism, and discuss hermeneutical strategies to reading historical texts, including approaches from the Cambridge School and the Straussians. Providing a broad overview of Western political ideas, an international range of contributors also demonstrate cognizance of global theoretical movements and their significance for historical inquiry. They reexamine the standard canon of political thinkers in light of topics such as gender, colonization, and race, exploring the ideas of, amongst others, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Wollstonecraft, and Marx. Accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as established scholars, this Handbook is a crucial resource for academics in political science, philosophy, intellectual history, and economics, as well as scholars who study economic thought, law and politics. It will also appeal to scholars seeking a clear understanding of the key concepts that continue to influence contemporary theory and research across the social sciences. Front Matter Copyright Contents About the editors Contributors Preface and acknowledgements Introduction to the Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought Part I Methodological approaches 1. Philosophical analysis 2. Leo Strauss and Straussianism 3. The Cambridge School 4. Comparative political thought 5. Feminism 6. Historical materialism Part II Historiographies 7. Platonism 8. Aristotelianism 9. Stoicism 10. Christianity 11. Islam 12. Liberalism 13. Conservatism 14. Republicanism 15. Libertarianism Part III Historical eras 16. Ancient Greece 17. Ancient Rome 18. Western Middle Ages 19. Arabic Middle Ages 20. Renaissance 21. Reformation 22. Seventeenth century 23. Eighteenth century 24. Nineteenth century Part IV Major authors 25. Plato 26. Aristotle 27. Cicero 28. Augustine 29. Thomas Aquinas 30. Marsilius of Padua 31. Machiavelli 32. Hobbes 33. Locke 34. Montesquieu 35. Rousseau 36. Kant 37. Edmund Burke 38. Catharine Macaulay 39. Mary Wollstonecraft 40. John Stuart Mill 41. Marx Index