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Index
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Part I: The Greeks
ANCIENT GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT
SOCRATES AND PLATO
THE GUARDIANS OF THE STATE AND JUSTICE
ARISTOTLE AND THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS
Part II: Romans and Roman Catholics
CHRISTIAN COSMOPOLITANISM
CHRISTENDOM AND ITS LAW: St Thomas Aquinas
Part III: Romans and humanists - The reinvention of sovereignty
THE REINVENTION OF SOVEREIGNTY: Marsilius of Padua
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince and the Virtuous Republic
Part IV: The theory of the Social Contract
THE RISE AND EXTRAORDINARY PERSISTENCE OF THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
SOCIAL CONTRACT I: The Hobbesian version
SOCIAL CONTRACT II: The Lockian version
SOCIAL CONTRACT III: The Rousseauist version
Part V: Enlightenment and the development of the modern state
THE MODERNITY OF THE MODERN STATE
THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
ENLIGHTENMENT AND GOVERNMENT THROUGH LAW: Montesquieu
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT: Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Paine
THE LIMITATIONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: Hume and Burke
Part VI: THE RISE OF LIBERALISM
THE RISE OF LIBERALISM
LIBERALISM COMES OF AGE: Bentham and John Stuart Mill
LIBERALISM IN MATURITY AND DECLINE: Spencer, Sumner and Green
Part VII: Reactions to liberalism 1: Hegel
HEGEL AND THE HEGELIAN CONTEXT OF MARXISM
Part VIII: Reactions to liberalism 2: Socialism
MARXISM AND OTHER SOCIALISMS
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: Bernstein and Crosland
THE SYNTHESIS OF JACOBINISM AND MARXISM-BOLSHEVISM: Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
Part IX: Reactions to liberalism 3: Irrationalism and anti-rationalism
THE MORAL EXCLUSIVENESS OF NATIONALISM: Herder
THE ELITIST CRITIQUE OF DEMOCRACY: Pareto and Michels
LIBERALISM’S SPECIAL ENEMIES: The Crowd and its Theorists
THE LEADER AND HIS CROWD: Sigmund Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
FASCISM, OR BEING REVOLUTIONARY WITHOUT BEING MARXIST
CONSERVATISM: Maurras and Oakeshott
THINKING ABOUT THINKING, AND THE LAPSE INTO DISCOURSES
NOTES
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