Contents:
Course description
Recommended reading
General
Aquinas - Hobbes ; Kropotkin - Marx/Engels ; Mill - Wollstonecraft
Reference books
Databases
Writing philosophy essays
Referencing

Course description

• be familiar with the main patterns of the development of political thinking in Europe up until the twentieth century
• have an understanding of the political theories of the major thinkers studied on the course
• have an understanding of the relationship between particular theories and the contexts in which they were produced
• be able to appreciate a number of different ways in which politics may be thought about.

Recommended reading 

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General
Aquinas - Hobbes
Kropotkin - Marx/Engels
Mill - Wollstonecraft

General

Cahn, Steven M., ed. Classics of Modern Political Theory: Machiavelli to Mill. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Coleman, Janet. A History of Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to Early Christianity. Malden, Ma : Blackwell 2000.

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---. A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000.

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Coole, Diana H. Women in Political Theory: From Ancient Misogyny to Contemporary Feminism. 2nd ed. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

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Eisenach, Eldon J. Two Worlds of Liberalism: Religion and Politics in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

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Hampsher-Monk, Ian. A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers From Hobbes to Marx. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

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Lively, Jack, and Andrew Reeve, eds. Modern Political Theory From Hobbes to Marx: Key Debates. London: Routledge, 1989.

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McLelland, J. S. A History of Western Political Thought. London: Routledge, 1996.

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Morrow, John. The History of Political Thought: A Thematic Introduction. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: McMillan, 2005.

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Okin, Susan Moller. Women in Western Political Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.

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Plamenatz, John. Man and Society: Political and Social Theories From Machiavelli to Marx. New ed. Revised by M.E. Plamenatz and Robert Wokler. New York: Longman, 1991.

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---. Plato to NATO: Studies in Political Thought. New ed. London: BBC Books, 1990.

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Rendall, Jane. The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780-1860. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985.

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Sinclair, T. A. A History of Greek Political Thought. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951.

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Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

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Thompson, Janna, ed. Women and Philosophy. Bundoora, Vic.: Australasian Association of Philosophy, 1986.

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Wolin, Sheldon S. Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. Expanded ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Library copy

AQUINAS - HOBBES
Aquinas	Aristotle	Christine de Pizan	Hobbes

Aquinas

Primary

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint. Aquinas, Selected Political Writings, edited by A.P. D'Entreves. Translated by J.G. Dawson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1948.

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---. Political Writings, edited and translated by R. W. Dyson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Library copy

Secondary

Black, Antony. "Christianity and Republicanism." American Political Science Review 91 (1997): 647-56.

Library copy | Journal article

Bleakley, H. H. "The Art of Ruling in Aquinas: De Regime Principum." History of Political Thought 20, no. 4 (1999): 575-602.

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Burns, Tony. "Aquinas' Two Doctrines of Natural Law." Political Studies. 48, no. 5 (2000): 929-46.

Library copy | Journal article

Coleman, Janet. A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000. Chap. 2.

Library copy

Suggested further reading

Black, Antony. Political Thought in Europe, 1250-1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Library copy

Copleston, F. C. Aquinas. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955.

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D'Entreves, A. P. Natural Law: An Introduction to Legal Philosophy. 2nd rev. ed. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1970.

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Finnis, John. Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Library copy | E-book

Fortin, E. L. "St. Thomas Aquinas." History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963.

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Gilby, Thomas. Principality and Polity: Aquinas and the Rise of State Theory in the West. London: Longmans, Green, 1958. 

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Kenny, Anthony, ed. Aquinas: A Collection of Critical Essays. London: Macmillan, 1970.

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Kretzmann, Norman, and Eleonore Stump, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Library copy | E-book

O'Connor, D. J. Aquinas and Natural Law. London: Macmillan, 1967.

Library copy

Aristotle

Primary

Aristotle. Politics, translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 1998.

Library copy

---. The Politics, edited by Stephen Everson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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---. The Politics, translated by Sir Ernest Barker. Rev. R.F. Stalley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

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---. The Politics of Aristotle, translated by Ernest Barker. Oxford: Clarendon, 1946.

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---. The Politics, translated by T. A. Sinclair. Rev. Trevor J. Saunders.  Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

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Secondary

Johnson, Curtis N. Aristotle's Theory of the State. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

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Keyt, David, and Fred D. Miller, eds. A Companion to Aristotle's Politics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

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Mulgan, Richard G. Aristotle's Political Theory: An Introduction for Students of Political Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.

Library copy

Okin, Susan Moller. Women in Western Political Thought. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1979. Chap 2.

Library copy

Suggested further reading

Alexander, Liz Anne. "The Best Regimes of Aristotle's Politics." History of Political Thought 21, no. 2 (2000): 189-216. 

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Ambler, Wayne H. "Aristotle's Understanding of the Naturalness of the City." Review of Politics 47, no. 2 (1985): 163-185.

Library copy | Journal article

Anagnostopoulos, Georgios, ed. Companion to Aristotle. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Library copy | E-book

Barker, Ernest. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle. London: Methuen, 1906.

Library copy

Barnes, Jonathan. Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

E-book

Freeland, Cynthia A.,ed. Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

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Huxley, G. "On Aristotle's Best State." History of Political Thought 6 (1985): 139-49.

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Morrall, J. B. Aristotle. London: Allen & Unwin, 1977.

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Schollmeier, P. "The Democracy Most in Accordance With Equality." History of Political Thought 9 (1988): 205-10.

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Waldron, Jeremy. "The Wisdom of the Multitude: Some Reflections on Book 3, Chapter 11 of Aristotle's Politics." Political Theory 23, no. 4 (1995): 563-80.

Library copy | Journal article

Wilson, John F. "Power, Rule and Politics: The Aristotelian View." Polity 13, no. 1 (1980): 80-96.

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Wood, E. M. and N. Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1978.

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Christine de Pizan

Secondary

Broad, Jacqueline, and Karen Green. "Christine de Pizan." A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Green, Karen. Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, c2005.

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Langdon Forhan, Kate. The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

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Hobbes

Primary

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by John Plamenatz. London: Fontana, 1962.

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---. Leviathan. London: Dent, 1947.

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---. Leviathan: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Interpretations, edited by Richard E. Flathman, and David Johnston. New York: Norton, 1997.

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---. Leviathan, edited by Richard Tuck. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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---. Leviathan, edited by Richard Tuck. Rev. student ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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---. Leviathan, edited by C B. Macpherson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.

Library copy

Secondary

Hampsher-Monk, Ian. A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers From Hobbes to Marx. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Chap. 1.

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McLelland, J. S. A History of Western Political Thought. London: Routledge, 1996. Chap. 11.

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Oakeshott, Michael. Hobbes on Civil Association. Oxford: Blackwell, 1975. Chap. 1.

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Sorell, Tom. Hobbes. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.

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Hampton, Jean. Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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Pateman, Carole. “'God Hath Ordained to Man a Helper’: Hobbes, Patriarchy and Conjugal Right.” In Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory, edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.

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Tuck, Richard. Hobbes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Library copy

Suggested further reading

Goldsmith, M. M. Hobbes's Science of Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

Library copy

Hull, Gordon. Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought. London: Continuum, 2009.

E-book

King, Preston. Ideology of Order: A Comparative Analysis of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974.

Library copy

McNeilly, F. S. The Anatomy of Leviathan. London: St. Martin's Press, 1968.

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Macpherson, C. B. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

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Newey, Glen. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hobbes and Leviathan. London: Routledge, 2008.

Library copy | E-book

Plamenatz, John. Man and Society: Political and Social Theories From Machiavelli to Marx. New ed., revised by M.E. Plamenatz and Robert Wokler. New York: Longman, 1991. Vol. 1.

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Skinner, Quentin. "The Ideological Context of Hobbes' Political Thought'." Historical Journal, 9, no. 3 (1966): 286-317.

Library copy | Journal article

---. Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Sorell, Tom, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Library copy | E-book

Springborg, Patricia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes' Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Library copy | E-book

Tuck, Richard. "Hobbes." In Plato to Nato: Studies in Political Thought. New ed. London: BBC Books, 1990.

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Watkins, J. W. N. Hobbes's System of Ideas: a Study in the Political Significance of Philosophical Theories. 2nd ed. London: Hutchinson, 1973.

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Wolin, Sheldon. Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. Expanded ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Library copy

Biographical information on Hobbes from the Library database Biography Resource Center.