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Kant casts a long shadow over contemporary debates in political philosophy. The Kantian roots of ideas of dignity, autonomy, equality and freedom under law are widely acknowledged. This volume explores various dimensions of Kant's complex and powerful picture of the relation between morality and politics that Kant develops.

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the development of Foucault's thought and demonstrates its enduring significance on our understanding of how we have become what we are.

From his first readers to the present, Friedrich Nietzsche has found supporters and detractors on every point of the political spectrum. This volume analyzes the reasons for this diversity of reception. It includes selections from major interpretive schools, including some from the early part of the twentieth century.

A collection of essays that represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft. It demonstrates Wollstonecraft's importance in contemporary social, political and sexual theory and in Romantic studies.

This volume on Hume's politics brings together essays that have been formative of the scholarly and more general debate about Hume's political thought. The articles span a wide range of view-points such as: the possibilities of seeing in Hume both the conservative and the liberal.

Contains the seminal articles that define the influence of Aquinas within legal philosophical thought. This book covers such topics as the relation of virtue to law, the common good, natural law, natural rights and property rights; and social and political issues like abortion, feminism, homosexuality, environment, civil disobedience and just war.

Although Heidegger's writings are not extensively concerned with the analysis of political concepts, there is a political aspect to his thinking about every philosophical matter to which he turns his attention. This collection of essays is designed to contextualize and evaluate the main phases of his intellectual development from that perspective.

In the course of a lifetime, Jean Bodin aimed at nothing less than to encompass all the disciplines of his age in a huge encyclopedia of knowledge. This book presents a selection of major articles in English, representing his intellectual interests. It is suitable for libraries and scholars in both humanities and social sciences.

Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together the most important English-language essays of the past 30 years on Arendt's unique and lasting contributions to social and political philosophy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was hailed by Claude Levi-Strauss as "the founder of the sciences of man". This collection of fourteen classic papers devoted to his work addresses the points of intersection between the moral and the political, the personal and the social.

Jurgen Habermas is widely regarded as one of the outstanding intellectuals. This title focuses on the theory of law which can be distilled from his vast compendium of work. It places this theory in the context of Habermas' overall contribution to the theory of society, political theory and social philosophy.

Examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines. This volume underlines the enduring and contemporary relevance of Pareto's ideas on a variety of topics.

The French philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was a political and social thinker of enormous depth, range, originality, and influence. This work features essays that explore significant aspects of his contributions to political, constitutional, and religious thought during the epoch of the French Enlightenment.

Features the articles on Hobbes that have been published in the twentieth century. This work aims at capturing the trend of fragmentation of Hobbes studies offering a taste of early epic interpretations that engaged with the whole of Hobbes' theory.

Hegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy. His theory of self-actualization locates our social identities within 'Ethical Life', expressing a variety of rationalist conservatism. This title explores this distinguished heritage and explains its contemporary relevance.