Reseña del libro "A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present (en Inglés)"
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history ofpolitical thought, tracing the development of arguments andcontroversies from ancient Greece, through different forms ofcommunity, state and empire, to today's global concerns. BruceHaddock highlights the bewildering variety of contexts that haveframed political thinking, yet also displays structural featuresthat have proved to be remarkably stable over time. An importanttheme in the book is the need to see political philosophy, even inits most abstract formulations, as a response to historicallycontingent circumstances, without limiting its relevance to thosecircumstances. The emphasis throughout is on political thinking asa response to hard choices. Major thinkers covered include Plato,Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Locke,Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Marx,Mill, Lenin, Schmitt, Nietzsche, Foucault, Oakeshott andRawls.The book treats political philosophy and theory as a tentativeengagement with a fractured and controversial past. Yet politicalthinking remains the exercise of a burden of a responsibility thatis inescapable for us. Haddock introduces a history that continuesto shape our understanding of ourselves as political and historicalcreatures.A History of Political Thought will be of interest to students andscholars of politics, history and philosophy.
