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Political Theory Readings List

Political Theory
Patrick Fagan
Year 1999       

Guy Story Brown.  Calhoun's Philosophy of Politics: A Study of A Disquisition on Government (Mercer University Press, 2000).  Book Review Available

Robert Greene.  The 48 Laws of Power (Penguin USA, 2000).

William Ebenstein and Alan O. Ebenstein.  Great Political Thinkers : Plato to the Present (Harcourt College Publishers, 2000).

Vincent J. Falcone.  Great Thinkers, Great Ideas : An Introduction to Western Thought (Cranbury Publications, 1992).

Charles Murray.  In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government (Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1994).

Ronald Beiner.  Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit : Essays on Contemporary Theory (University of Toronto Press, 1997).

David Epstein.  The Political Theory of The Federalist (University of Chicago Press, 1984).

Jonathan Wolff.  An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1996).  Book Review Available

Charles R. Kesler.  The Federalist Papers (Mentor Books, 1999).

Guy Peters.  Institutional Theory in Political Science : The New Institutionalism (Cassell Academic, 2000).

Ronald Beiner.  What's the Matter With Liberalism (University of California Press, 1992).

Frisch Morton.  American Political Thought : The Philosophic Dimension of American Statesmanship (F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1983).

Clinton Rossiter.  The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (New American Library, 1961).

Neera Chandhoke.  State and Civil Society Explorations in Political Theory (Sage, 1995).

Jason Frank and John Tambornino.  Vocations of Political Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

Samuel Freeman, editor. John Rawls : Collected Papers (Harvard University Press, 1999).

This volume contains twenty-seven previously published articles written by the liberal political philosopher John Rawls.  The articles, most of which address the concepts of justice and equality, date from 1951 to 1998.  This collection contains virtually all of Rawls' published work not included in his THEORY OF JUSTICE (1971), POLITICAL LIBERALISM (1993, 1996 paperback edition), THE LAW OF PEOPLES (1999), and, with Barbara Herman, LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY (2000). (Annotation by Law and Politics Book Review).