UCSD DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
210B: SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
II
MACHIAVELLI TO ROUSSEAU
WINTER 2005
F.
Forman-Barzilai
ffb@ucsd.edu
2-3868
Office
hours: Wednesdays 12:30-1:30, or by appt.
The POLI
210 seminars (A-D) are designed to prepare graduate students for the field
examination in political theory. 210B
will provide an intensive introduction to European political thought from
Machiavelli to Rousseau, focusing primarily on original texts, and providing
some exposure to important secondary material on the period.
Requirements:
Attendance
and participation are essential. Each
week, two or three students (depending on enrollment) will be responsible for
providing a biographical introduction to the week’s thinker(s), and guiding us
through the week’s assigned readings, based upon study questions that are
distributed in advance. Each student
(including auditors) can expect to do this twice during the term. You should
see these presentations as central to the seminar and important to your grade.
One 15 page
paper is due Monday, March 14, on a topic submitted for
approval by week 6.
Under the
“secondary texts” lists for each week, texts appearing above the solid line
will be discussed in seminar. Texts
below the line are recommended as you write your papers or pursue further
research on individual authors, themes or periods. They are, of course, barely representative of
the vast perspectives and literatures on the various subjects surveyed in this
seminar. You are welcome and encouraged
to pursue alternative directions.
For
Purchase:
Machiavelli,
Selected Political Writings, ed. Wootton (Hackett)
Hobbes, Leviathan,
ed. Macpherson (Penguin)
Locke, Two
Treatises of Government, ed. Laslett (Cambridge)
Montesquieu,
Selected Political Writings, ed. Richter (Hackett)
Rousseau, The
Basic Political Writings, ed. Cress (Hackett)
Hume, An
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hackett)
Smith, An
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , ed. Dickey
(Hackett)
Smith, Theory
of Moral Sentiments, eds. Raphael and Macfie (Liberty)
Texts
marked with an asterisk (*) are available for photocopying in the “210B folder”
in the graduate student lounge.
Week
One:
Introduction, administration
Week
Two: Niccoló
Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Readings
Letter
to Francesco Vettori (1513)
The
Prince (1513)
The
Discourses
(1518-9)
Secondary
Texts
Quentin
Skinner, "The Republican Ideal of Political Liberty." In Machiavelli
and Republicanism, ed. Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli.
Cambridge, 1990, pp. 293-309.*
Sheldon
Wolin, “Machiavelli: Politics and the Economy of Violence” in Politics and
Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, Boston,
1960 (2004, pp. 175-213.*
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Hans Baron,
In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism: Essays on the Transition from
Medieval to Modern Thought, 2 vols. Princeton, 1988. Esp.
“Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth as Factors in the Rise of
Humanistic Thought,”
Gisela
Bock, Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli, eds. Machiavelli and
Republicanism. Cambridge, 1990.
Mary Dietz,
“Trapping the Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception,” American
Political Science Review 80 (1986): 777-99.
Hannah
Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman. Berkeley, 1984.
J.G.A.
Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the
Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton, 1975.
Albert
Rabil, Jr., “The significance of “civic humanism” in the interpretation of the
Italian Renaissance” in Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms, and Legacy,
vol. 1, ed. Albert J. Rabil, Jr. pp. 141-174.
Penn, 1988.
Quentin
Skinner, Machiavelli, Oxford,
1981.
Leo
Strauss, Thoughts on Machiavelli, Free Press, 1958.
Week Three: Montaigne
(1533-1592), Hobbes (1588-1679)
Readings
Sextus Empiricus, Outlines,
selections*
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, “Of Custom,” and
“Of Cannibals.”*
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Parts I, II
Secondary Texts
Richard Tuck, "Grotius, Carneades and
Hobbes." Grotiana 4 (1983): 43-62.*
Sheldon S . Wolin, “Hobbes and the Culture
of Despotism” in Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory, ed. Mary G. Dietz,
Kansas, 1990.*
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Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes, “Intro.” to
Sextus Empricus, Outlines of Scepticism, Cambridge, 2000.
Peter Burke, Montaigne. Oxford, 1981.
Mary Dietz, ed. Thomas Hobbes and
Political Theory. Kansas, 1990.
Michael Oakeshott, Hobbes on Civil
Association. Oxford, 1937.
G.A.J. Rogers and Alan Ryan, eds. Perspectives
on Thomas Hobbes, Oxford, 1988.
Quentin Skinner, “The Ideological Context of
Hobbes’ Political Thought,” Historical Journal 9, 3 (1966): 286-317.*
Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in
the Philosophy of Hobbes, Cambridge, 1996.
Jean Starobinski, Montaigne in Motion,
trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago, 1985.
Leo Strauss, “On the Spirit of Hobbes’
Political Philosophy,” La Revue Internationale de Philosophie IV, 14
(1950): 405-31.
Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories:
Their Origin and Development. Cambridge, 1979.
Richard Tuck, Hobbes, Oxford, 1989.
Richard Tuck, Philosophy and Government,
1572-1651. Cambridge, 1993.
Related primary texts
The Complete Essays of Montaigne, trans. Donald
Frame, Stanford, 1965.
Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace,
trans. Francis W. Kelsey, Oxford, 1925
Hobbes, On the Citizen, eds. Tuck and
Silverthorne, Cambridge, 1998.
Hobbes, Behemoth; or The Long Parliament
(completed 1668; pub. 1682) ed. Holmes Chicago, 1990.
Week
Four: John
Locke (1632-1704)
Readings
Second
Treatise of Government
Secondary
Texts
John Dunn, “‘Trust’ in the Politics
of John Locke” in Rethinking Modern Political Theory, Cambridge, 1985,
pp. 34-54.*
C.B. Macpherson, “The Social Bearing
of Locke’s Political Theory,” The Western Political Quarterly, VII
(1954): 1-22.*
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Richard Ashcraft, Locke’s Two
Treatises of Government, London, 1987.
John Dunn, The Political Thought
of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the ‘Two Treatises of
Government’. Cambridge, 1969.
John Dunn, Locke, Oxford,
1984.
Don Herzog, Happy Slaves. A Critique of Consent Theory,
Chicago, 1989.
C.B. Macpherson, The Political
Theory of Possessive Individualism. Oxford, 1962.
John Marshall, John Locke:
Resistance, Religion and Responsibility.
Cambridge, 1994.
James Tully, An Approach to
Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts. Cambridge, 1993.
Related primary texts
Sir Robert Filmer, Patriarcha
(1680), ed. Johann P. Sommerville, Cambridge, 1991.
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding (1693) , ed. I.C. Tipton, Oxford, 1996.
Locke, A Letter Concerning
Toleration (1689), Promethius, 1994.
Samuel Pufendorf, On the Law of
Nature and Nations (1688), trans. Oldfather and Oldfather, Oxford, 1934;
The Law Book Exchange (Forthcoming, 8 vols., 2004).
Samuel Pufendorf, On the Duty of
Man and Citizen (1673), ed. James Tully.
Cambridge, 1991.
Week Five: Charles Louis de Secondat, baron
de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Readings
Spirit of the Laws (1748-57), Introduction and Preface, Books
1-3, 5, 11
Persian Letters (1721), Letters X-XIV (pp. 55-62), Seraglio
selections (pp. 64-83)
Secondary Texts
Allessandro S. Crisafulli,
“Montesquieu’s Story of the Troglodytes” Publications of the Modern Language
Association of America, 1937.*
Judith N. Shklar, Montesquieu and
the new republicanism” in Machiavelli and Republicanism,, ed. Gisela
Bock, Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990, pp. 265-279.*
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Louis Althusser, Politics and
History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, trans. Ben Brewster. 1959;
London, 1977.
Isaiah Berlin,
"Montesquieu," Proceedings of the British Academy 41 (1955);
reprint ed. in Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas,
Penguin, 1980, pp. 130-61.
Emile Durkheim, Montesquieu and
Rousseau: Forerunners of Sociology, Ann Arbor, 1965
Mark Hulliung, Montesquieu and
the Old Regime, Berkeley, 1976.
Bernard Manin,
"Montesquieu," in A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution,
eds. François Furet and Mona Ozouf, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Belknap, 1989,
pp. 728-41.
Thomas Pangle, Montesquieu's
Philosophy of Liberalism: A Commentary on Spirit of the Laws. Chicago,
1973.
Robert Shackleton, Montesquieu,
Oxford, 1961.
Judith Shklar, Montesquieu,
Oxford, 1987.
Related primary texts
Montesquieu, Considerations on
the Causes of the Roman’s Greatness and Decline (1734), trans. David
Lowenthal, Hackett, 1999.
Giambattista Vico, The First New
Science (1744), trans. Leon Pompa, Cambridge, 2002.
Week Six: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Readings
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (First Discourse; 1750)
Discourse on the Origins of
Inequality (Second
Discourse; 1755)
Secondary Texts
Robert Wokler, “Human Nature and
Civil Society” in Rousseau, Oxford, 1995, pp. 33-54.*
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Ernst Cassirer, The Question of
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ed. and trans. Peter Gay (1932) Yale, 1989.
John Charvet, The Social Problem
in the Philosophy of Rousseau.
London, 1974.
Maurice Cranston’s three volume
biography: Jean-Jacques: The Early Life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1754,
(Chicago, 1991): The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-1762
(Chicago, 1991); and (posthumously) The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
in Exile and Adversity (Chicago, 1997).
Robert Derathé, Rousseau et la
science politique de son temps.
Paris, 1950.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “The
Emergence of Contextualism in Rousseau’s Political Thought: The Case of
Parisian Theatre in the Lettre à d’Alembert” History of Political
Thought XXIV, 3 (Autumn 2003): 435-63.
Bernard Manin, "Rousseau,"
in A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution, eds. François Furet
and Mona Ozouf, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Belknap Press, 1989, pp. 829-43.
Roger Masters, The Political
Philosophy of Rousseau. Princeton,
1968.
Patrick Riley, The General
Will Before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic. Princeton, 1986.
Helena Rosenblatt, Rousseau and
Geneva. Cambridge, 1997.
Judith Shklar, Men and Citizens:
A study of Rousseau's social theory.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Judith N. Shklar, “Reading the
Social Contract” (1979) in Judith N. Shklar, Political Thought and Political
Thinkers, ed. Stanley Hoffman, Chicago, 1998, pp, 262-75.
Jean Starobinski, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction. (Paris, 1971) trans. Arthur
Goldhammer. Chicago, 1988.
Jean Starobinski “The Antidote in
the Poison: The Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau” in Jean Starobinski Blessings
in Disguise; or, The Morality of Evil, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard,
1993, 118-68.
Leo Strauss, “On The Intention of
Rousseau” Social Research 14 (1947): 455-87.
Tracy Strong, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary, Sage, 1994.
Robert Wokler, The Social Thought
of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Garland, 1987.
Robert Wokler, Rousseau,
Oxford, 1995.
Robert Wokler, ed. Rousseau and Liberty,
Manchester, 1995.
Related primary texts
Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew
(1760s), trans. Jacquees Barzun and Ralph H. Bowen, Macmillan, 1976.
Denis Diderot, Political Writings,
trans. David Williams, Cambridge, 1994.
Denis Diderot, Jean D’Alembert, et
al., Encyclopédie (1751-72).
Especially, Jean d’Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the
Encyclopedia of Diderot, (1751) trans. Richard N. Schwab, Chicago, 1995.
Marquis de Sade, Justine,
Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings (1797-1800), trans. Austryn
Wainhouse and Richard Seaver, Grove Press, 1990.
Rousseau, On the Social Contract
(1762), trans. Donald A. Cress, Hackett, 1987.
To be covered in 210C
Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of
Languages, trans. Victor Gourevitch, Harper, 1990.
Rousseau, Discourse on Political
Economy (1755); trans. Donald A. Cress, Hackett, 1987.
Rousseau, Considerations on the
Government of Poland (1772); trans. F.M. Watkins, Wisconsin, 1986.
Rousseau, Emile (1762);
trans. Allan Bloom, New York, 1979.
Rousseau, Letter to d’Alembert
(1758) in Politics and the Arts: Rousseau’s Letter to D’Alembert, ed.
and trans. Allan Bloom, New York, 1960.
Voltaire (François-Marie Aroüet), Candide
(1764), trans. John Butt, Penguin, 1990.
Voltaire, Political Writings,
eds. John Hope Mason and Robert Wokler, Cambridge, 1992.
Week Seven: continuation
Week Nine: Mandeville (1670-1733), Hume
(1711-1776)
Readings
Bernard de Mandeville, “The
Grumbling Hive” (1705), An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue
(1714)*
David Hume, Selections from Essays,
Moral and Political (1741-2): “Of the Original Contract,”* “Of Commerce,”*
“Of Refinement in the Arts,”* An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
(1751)
Secondary Texts
Laurence Dickey, “Doux-commerce and
humanitarian values: free trade, sociability and universal benevolence in
eighteenth-century thinking,” in Grotius and the Stoa eds. H.W. Blom and
L.C. Winkel. Van Gorcum, 2004, pp. 271-317.
Read only Part I (pp. 271-290). *
J.G.A. Pocock, “Virtues, Rights and
Manners,” in J.G.A Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political
Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge,
1985, pp. 37-50.*
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Dario
Castiglione, "Mandeville Moralized," Annali della Fondazione Luigi
Einaudi, XVII (1983): 239-90.
Laurence Dickey, "Pride,
Hypocrisy and Civility in Mandeville's Social and Historical Theory." Critical
Review (Summer 1990): 387-431.*
John Dunn, “From applied theology to
social analysis: the break between John Locke and the Scottish Enlightenment”
in John Dunn, Rethinking Modern Political Theory, Cambridge, 1985, pp.
55-67.
Duncan Forbes, Hume's Political
Philosophy. Cambridge, 1976.
Knud Haakonssen, The Science of a
Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith.
Cambridge, 1981.
Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions
and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph.
Princeton, 1977.
Istvan Hont, “Free Trade and the
Limits to National Politics” in The Economic Limits to Modern Politics,
ed. John Dunn, Cambridge: 1990, pp. 41-120.
E.J. Hundert, The Enlightenment's
Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society. Cambridge, 1994.
Terence Hutchison, Before Adam
Smith: The Emergence of Political Economy, 1662-1776. Oxford, 1988.
M.M. Goldsmith, Private Vices,
Public Benefits. Cambridge, 1985.
Arthur O. Lovejoy, Reflections on
Human Nature, Johns Hopkins, 1961.
Jacob Viner, “Introduction to
Bernard Mandeville, A Letter to Dion (1732)” in Jacob Viner, Essays
on th Intellectual History of Economics, Princeton, 1991, pp. 176-88.
Related primary texts
Joseph Butler, Five Sermons
(1726), ed. Stephen L. Darwall, Hackett, 1983.
Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
(1739-40), ed. L.E. Selby-Bigge, rev. Peter Nidditch, Oxford, 1978.
Hume, Essays, Moral and Political
(1741-2). See Essays, ed. Eugene
F. Miller, Liberty, 1985, and Political Essays, ed. Knud Haakonssen,
Cambridge, 1994.
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding (1748), ed. L.E. Selby-Bigge, rev. Peter Nidditch, Oxford,
1975.
Francis Hutcheson, Illustrations
on the Moral Sense, ed. Bernard Peach, Cambridge, 1971.
Mandeville, A Letter to Dion
(1732), intro. Jacob Viner, Los Angeles, 1953.
Week Ten: Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Readings
Wealth of Nations (1776), selections:
Book I, chs. 1-8 (pp. 3-49)
Book II, Intro, chs. 1-3 (pp. 49-83)
Book III (pp. 83-116)
Book IV ch. 1 (pp. 117-127)
Book V, ch. 1 (pp. 166-205)
Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759-1790), selections:
Part I, Section I, chs. 1-3 (pp.
9-19); Section III, chs. 2-3 (pp. 50-66)
Part II, Section II, chs. 1-3 (pp.
78-91)
Part III, ch. 1 (pp. 109-113); ch. 3
(pp. 134-56)
Part IV, entire (pp. 179-93)
Part VI, Section II, ch. 4 (pp.
306-14); Section III, ch. 1 (pp. 315-7)
Secondary Texts
Stephen Holmes, "The Secret
History of Self-Interest." In Beyond Self-Interest, ed. Jane J.
Mansbridge, Chicago, 1990, pp. 267-86.*
D.D. Raphael, "Hume and Adam
Smith on Justice and Utility." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
LXXIII (1972/3): 87-103.*
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Lucio Colletti, "Mandeville,
Rousseau and Smith" in Lucio Colletti, From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies
in Ideology and Society, trans. John Merrington and Judith White, New York,
1972, pp. 195-216.
Joseph Cropsey. Polity and
Economy: An Interpretation of the Principles of the Principles of Adam Smith.
Chicago, 1957.
Laurence Dickey, "Historicizing
the 'Adam Smith Problem': Conceptual, Historiographical, and Textual
Issues." Journal of Modern History 58 (September 1986): 579-609.
Samuel Fleischacker, A Third
Concept of Liberty. Princeton, 1999.
Samuel Fleischacker, Adam Smith’s
Wealth of Nations. Princeton, 2004.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Adam Smith
as Globalization Theorist” Critical Review 14, 4 (2002): 391-419.
Fonna Forman-Barzilai, “Sympathy in
space(s): Adam Smith on proximity,” Political Theory (forthcoming, April
2005).
Charles L. Griswold, Adam Smith
and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge, 1999.
Knud, Haakonssen, The Science of
a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith.
Cambridge, 1981.
Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff,
eds. Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish
Enlightenment, Cambridge, 1983.
Istvan Hont, "The language of
sociability and commerce: Samuel Pufendorf and the theoretical foundations of
the 'Four-Stages Theory.'" In The Languages of Political Theory in
Early Modern Europe, ed. Anthony Pagden, Cambridge, 1987, pp. 253-76.
Michael Ignatieff, "Smith,
Rousseau and the Republic of Needs." In Scotland and Europe, 1200-1850.
Edited by T.C. Smout. Edinburgh, 1986.
Leonidas Montes, Adam Smith in
Context: A Critical Reassessment of some Central Components of His Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
James R. Otteson, Adam Smith’s
Marketplace of Life, Cambridge 2003.
D.D. Raphael, Adam Smith.
Oxford, 1985
Emma Rothschild, Economic
Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment, Harvard, 2001.
Michael J. Shapiro, Reading
"Adam Smith": Desire, History and Value, Sage, 1993.
Jacob Viner, Essays on the
Intellectual History of Economics, Princeton, 1991. Especially “Adam Smith and Laissez-Faire,”
pp. 85-113.
Donald Winch, Adam Smith's
Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision. Cambridge, 1978.
Related primary texts
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the
History of Civil Society (1767), ed. Oz-Salzburger, Cambridge, 1986.
Smith, Lectures on Jurisprudence,
eds. Meek, Raphael, and Stein, Oxford, 1978.
210B
General Secondary Texts
Raymond Aron, Main Currents in
Sociological Thought, trans. Howard and Weaver, New York, 1968
Isaiah Berlin, “Two Concepts of Liberty”
(1958) in Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford, 1969, pp. 118-72.
Christopher J. Berry, Social
Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh, 1997.
Stephen Buckle, Natural Law and
the Theory of Property, Grotius to Hume, Oxford, 1991.
Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of
the Enlightenment. Translated by Fritz C.A. Koelln and James P.
Pettegrove. Princeton, 1951.
William E. Connolly, Political
Theory & Modernity, Cornell, 1993.
Louis Dumont, From Mandeville to
Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology, Chicago, 1977.
Knud Haakonssen, Natural Law and
Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge,
1996.
Paul Hazard, European Thought in the Eighteenth Century:
From Montesquieu to Lessing.
Gloucester, MA: 1973.
Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno, Dialectic
of Enlightenment (1944), trans. John Cumming, New York: 1979.
Nannerl O. Keohane, Philosophy
and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Princeton,
1980.
Reinhart Koselleck, Critique and
Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society. 1959.
Cambridge, MA: 1988.
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, Notre Dame, 1984.
Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought, Princeton,
1979.
Anthony Pagden, ed. The Languages
of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, 1987.
Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin
Skinner, eds. Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain. Cambridge, 1993.
John Plamenatz, Man and Society. A Critical Examination of
Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx. London, 1963.
J.G.A Pocock, Virtue, Commerce
and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth
Century. Cambridge, 1985.
Karl Polanyi, The Great
Transformation, Boston, 1944.
Patrick Riley, Will and Political
Legitimacy: A Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory in Hobbes, Locke,
Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel. Harvard,
1982.
J.B. Schneewind, ed. Moral Philosophy
from Montaigne to Kant, 2 vols. Cambridge, 1990.
J.B. Schneewind, The Invention of
Autonomy, A History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Cambridge, 1998.
Quentin Skinner, The Foundations
of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols. Cambridge, 1977.
Leo Strauss, Natural Right and
History, Chicago, 1950.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the
Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Harvard, 1989.
Sheldon Wolin, Politics and
Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, Boston,
1960.
210B
Some general texts on (or in some
cases, illustrating) various methods and modes of political theory and the
history of political thought
Ashcraft, Richard, “On the Problem
of Methodology and the Nature of Political Theory,” Political Theory 3,
1 (1975).
Baker, Keith Michael, “Enlightenment
and the Institution of Society: Notes for a Conceptual History,” in Main
Currents in Cultural History: Ten Essays, eds. Melcking and Velema,
Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 95-120.
Ball, Terence, James Farr and
Russell L. Hanson, eds. Political Innovation
and Conceptual Change, Cambridge 1989.
Ball, Terence, “Discordant Voices:
American histories of political thought,” in The History of Political
Thought in National Context, eds. Dario Castiglione and Iain Hampsher-Monk,
Cambridge, 2001, pp. 107-33.
di Stefano, Christine and Nancy
Hirschman, Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of
Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory, Boulder, 1996.
Dunn, John. “The Identity of the History of Ideas,” Philosophy
43 (April 11968): 85-104.
Dunn, John. “The History of Political Theory,” in John
Dunn, The History of Political Theory and other essays, Cambridge, 1996.
Elster, Jon. “The Market and the
Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory,” in Foundations of Social Choice
Theory, ed. Jon Elster, Cambridge, 1996.
Geuss, Raymond. The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas
and the Frankfurt School, Cambridge, 1981.
Gunnell, John. Political Theory:
Tradition and Interpretation, New York, 1987.
Gunnell, John. The Descent of
Political Theory: The Genealogy of an American Vocation, Chicago, 1993.
Herzog, Don. Without Foundations: Justification in
Political Theory, Cornell, 1985.
Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary
Political Philosophy, An Introduction, Oxford, 1990.
LaCapra, Dominick. "Rethinking
Intellectual History and Reading Texts" in Modern European Intellectual
History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives, ed. Dominick LaCapra and Steven
L. Kaplan, Cornell, 1982, pp. 47-85.
Miller, David and Larry Seidentop,
eds. The Nature of Political Theory, Oxford, 1983.
Miller, David, “The Resurgence of
Political Theory,” Political Studies XXXVIII, 421-437.
Pocock, J.G.A., “Languages and their
Implications,” in J.G.A. Pocock, Politics, Language and Time, New York,
1971, pp. 3-41.
Richter, Melvin. “Begriffsgeschichte
and the History of Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas (1987):
247-63.
Ryan Alan, ed. The Philosophy of
Social Explanation, Oxford, 1973.
Shklar, Judith. “Facing Up to Intellectual Pluralism,” in Political
Theory and Social Change, ed. David Spitz.
New York: 1967.
Shklar, Judith N., Ordinary Vices,
Belknap, 1984.
Skinner, Quentin. "Meaning and
understanding in the history of ideas." History and Theory 8
(1969): 3-53.
Skinner, Quentin, ed. The Return
of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences, Cambridge, 1985.
Strauss, Leo. “Persecution and the Art of Writing.” In Persecution and the Art of Writing. Chicago: 1988.
Thiele, Leslie Paul, Thinking
Politics: Perspectives in ancient, modern and postmodern political theory,
Chatham House, 2003.
Tuck, Richard, “The contribution of
history,” in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, eds.
Goodin and Petit, Blackwell, 1994, pp. 72-90.
Tully, James, ed. Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and
His Critics. Princeton, 1988.
Vincent, Andrew, ed. Political
Theory, tradition & diversity. Cambridge, 1997.
White, Stephen, Postmodernism and
Political Theory, Cambridge, 1991.
Wolin, Sheldon, “Political Theory as
a Vocation” APSR 63 (December 1969): 1062-82.