The Political Theory Reader [Paperback]

• Allows students to see how competing ideological viewpoints think about the same political issues
  
• Provides readers with direct access to authors covered in the From Ideologies to Public Philosophies text
  
• Facilitates discussions by having readings arranged thematically throughout text
  
• Extracts of works specifically chosen to focus on topics central to issues covered in chapters.

Acknowledgments

1. Political Theory, Public Philosophy, and Pluralism

Introduction

Leo Strauss, What Is Political Philosophy?

Judith Shklar, Political Ideology

Theodore J. Lowi, America’s Old and New Public Philosophy

Avigail Eisenberg, Reconstructing Political Pluralism

William E. Connolly, Pluralism: A Prelude

Part I: Ideological Voices

2. Nineteenth-Century Ideologies

Introduction

John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government

National Assembly of France, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

3. Twentieth-Century Ideologies

Introduction

Vladimir I. Lenin, State and Revolution