Princeton Readings in Political Thought

A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology, this new edition of Princeton Readings in Political Thought spans from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In addition to the majority of pieces from the original edition, it features exciting new selections from more recent thinkers who address vital contemporary issues, including identity, cosmopolitanism, global justice, and populism.

Organized chronologically, the anthology brings together a fascinating array of writings—including essays, book excerpts, speeches, and other documents—that have indelibly shaped how politics and society are understood. Each chronological section and thinker is presented with a brief, lucid introduction, making this a valuable reference as well as an essential reader.

A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology of political thought, Princeton Readings in Political Thought features a wide range of thinkers, including:

• Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas
• Christine de Pizan, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Swift, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith
• Jefferson, Burke, Olympe de Gouges, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Hegel, Bentham, Mill, de Tocqueville
• Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Marx, Nietzsche, Lenin, John Dewey, Gaetano Mosca, Roberto Michels, Weber
• Emma Goldman, Freud, Einstein, Mussolini, Arendt, Hayek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, T. H. Marshall, Orwell
• Leo Strauss, Simone de Beauvoir, Fanon, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Havel, Fukuyama, Habermas, Foucault
• Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, Iris Marion Young, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Amartya Sen, and Jan-Werner Muller

Includes brief introductions for each thinker.