1: Introduction
PART ONE: INTERPRETIVE SCHEMES
2: Hegel and Marx: Political Culture, Economy, and Ideology
3: Oakeshott, Collingwood, and the Historical Turn
4: Quentin Skinner, the Cambridge School, and Contextualism
5: Derrida: Deconstructing the Canon
6: Foucault: Politics, History, and Discourse
7: Gadamer and Hermeneutics
PART TWO: INTERPRETATIONS OF MODERN POLITICAL THINKERS
8: Machiavelli: Modernity and the Renaissance Man
9: Hobbes and the Politics of Absolutism
10: Locke: History and Political Thought
11: Rousseau: Nature and Society
12: Kant: Morality, Politics, and Cosmopolitanism
13: Hegel and the Politics of Modernity
14: Karl Marx: One or Many
15: Jeremy Bentham: Enlightenment Politics
16: John Stuart Mill: Then and Now
17: Nietzsche: Politics, Power, and Philosophy
18: Beauvoir and the Politics of Sex
19: Conclusion: Political Thought and History
Gary Browning is Professor of Political Philosophy at Oxford
Brookes University and Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge
Exchange in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has
served on the Executive of the Political Studies Association and is
a member of the Council of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. He
has published a number of books in political thought and related
fields, such as Plato and Hegel: Two Modes of Philosophising
about
Politics (Routledge, 2012), Dialogues with Contemporary Political
Theorists (co-edited with R. Prokhovnik and M. Dimova- Cookson,
Palgrave, 2012), and Global Theory from Kant to Hardt and Negri
(Palgrave,
2011).
This densely layered and intricate study combines modes of
interpreting political thought with discussion of major political
thinkers from Machiavelli through J. S. Mill and Nietzsche...
Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
Browning's A History of Modern Political Thought is likely to
become something of a landmark. First, it offers this new approach
to the study of modern political thought-the insistence on
'interpretation' which features in the subtitle and which is
explained carefully and illustrated copiously in the course of the
book itself. Second, it will no doubt form a main text on many
university courses; it is certainly not a text book in the
conventional sense, but it offers both great sweep and enormous
erudition, which means that it will have much to offer for both
scholars of political thought and relative novices alike.
*Nick Hewlett, University of Warwick, The European Legacy*
If any book is testament to the flourishing world of political
philosophy and its history in the second half of the twentieth
century after its supposed 'death' at the hands of logical
positivism in the 1950s, then this is it. Gary Browning in effect
demonstrates how such a claim was deeply provincial. The book seeks
to be an interpretation of some of the interpretive strategies
deployed in analysing the canonical texts and thinkers in the
history of modern European political thought.
*Jules Townsend, Manchester Metropolitan University*
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