Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato - Revised and Expanded Edition: Essential Texts from Plato to Populism - Softcover

Cohen, Mitchell

 
9780691159973: Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato - Revised and Expanded Edition: Essential Texts from Plato to Populism
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ISBN 10: 0691159971 ISBN 13: 9780691159973
Verlag: Princeton Univers. Press, 2018

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This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and engaging anthologies of Western political thinking, one that spans from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In addition to the majority of the pieces that appeared in the original edition, this new edition features exciting new selections from more recent thinkers who address vital contemporary issues, including identity, cosmopolitanism, global justice, and populism. Organized chronologically, the anthology brings together a fascinating array of writings--including essays, book excerpts, speeches, and other documents- that have indelibly shaped how politics and society are understood. Each chronological section and thinker is presented with a brief, lucid introduction, making this a valuable reference as well as reader.

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Mitchell Cohen is professor of political science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and editor emeritus of Dissent magazine. His books include The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton).

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Princeton Readings in Political Thought

Essential Texts from Plato to Populism

By Mitchell Cohen

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Contents

Acknowledgments, ix, 
Thinking Politically: An Introduction, 1, 
Part One: Classical Political Thought, 
Introduction, 7, 
1. Thucydides From The Peloponnesian War, 11, 
2. Plato Selections, 21, 
3. Aristotle Politics, 96, 
4. Cicero On The Republic and The Laws, 107, 
PART TWO: The Middle Ages, 
Introduction, 113, 
5. St. Augustine City of God, 115, 
6. St. Thomas Aquinas Politics and Law, 124, 
7. Christine de Pizan The Book of the City of Ladies, 131, 
PART THREE: Modern Political Thought, 
Introduction, 139, 
8. Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince and Discourses (Selections), 145, 
9. Martin Luther The Christian in Society, 167, 
10. John Calvin God, Politics, Duty, 172, 
11. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, 176, 
12. Baruch Spinoza Theological-Political Treatise, 208, 
13. John Locke Second Treatise of Government, 213, 
14. Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal, 244, 
15. Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws, 250, 
16. David Hume Empirical Politics, 260, 
17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau The People's Will, Sovereignty, and Inequality, 270, 
18. Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations, 298, 
19. Thomas Jefferson et al. The Declaration of Independence, 316, 
20. Publius and Brutus Federalists and Anti-Federalists, 319, 
21. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 334, 
22. Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France, 336, 
23. Marie-Olympes de Gouges Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens, 342, 
24. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 347, 
25. Immanuel Kant What Is Enlightenment?, 355, 
26. G.W.F. Hegel Lordship and Bondage, 360, 
27. Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 365, 
28. John Stuart Mill Liberty and the Individual, 369, 
29. Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America, 388, 
30. Frederick Douglass What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, 411, 
31. Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address, 427, 
32. Karl Marx Revolution against Capitalism, 428, 
33. Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals, 455, 
PART FOUR: Century of Turmoil, 
Introduction, 477, 
34. V. I. Lenin Bolshevism, 481, 
35. Gaetano Mosca The Ruling Class, 493, 
36. Robert Michels Political Parties, 503, 
37. Max Weber Politics as a Vocation, 508, 
38. Emma Goldman Victims of Morality, 519, 
39. Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents, 523, 
40. Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud Why War?, 530, 
41. Benito Mussolini Fascism, 540, 
42. Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism, 544, 
43. F. A. Hayek The Road to Serfdom, 558, 
44. John Dewey Creative Democracy — The Task Before Us, 563, 
45. Franklin D. Roosevelt Liberal America, 567, 
46. T. H. Marshall Citizenship and Social Class, 573, 
47. George Orwell Politics and the English Language, 583, 
48. Leo Strauss What Is Political Philosophy?, 592, 
49. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex, 603, 
50. Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth, 614, 
51. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail, 621, 
52. Malcolm X The Ballot or the Bullet, 632, 
53. Václav Havel The Power of the Powerless, 637, 
54. Francis Fukuyama The End of History?, 645, 
55. Mitchell Cohen 1989: What Is to Be Learned?, 656, 
PART FIVE: Changing Horizons, 
Introduction, 665, 
56. JÃ1/4rgen Habermas The Public Sphere, 667, 
57. Michel Foucault Power: An Interview, 672, 
58. Peter Singer Famine, Affluence, and Morality, 677, 
59. John Rawls A Theory of Justice, 685, 
60. Robert Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 709, 
61. Michael Walzer In Defense of Equality, 718, 
62. Iris Marion Young Justice and the Politics of Difference, 729, 
63. Martha Nussbaum Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism, 738, 
64. Amartya Sen The Idea of Justice, 746, 
65. Jan-Werner Müller What Is Populism?, 758,


CHAPTER 1

Thucydides

From The Peloponnesian War


Thucydides (460?–400? BCE) was an Athenian whose History of the Peloponnesian War remains a landmark in historical writing. The war, in which he served as a general, was fought between Athens and its allies in the Delian League and Sparta and its allies in the Peloponnesian League. Thucydides's military failures forced him into exile in 424–423 BCE. In his method of writing history he sought to be nonjudgmental, assembling facts and trying to explain what caused the events he interpreted. His focus was on human actions and interests, and he did not use religious or metaphysical explanations. The war, he believed, originated in Sparta's fear of mounting Athenian power and ambitions. Thucydides's roots were in the Sophist movement, professional intellectuals of Athens and targets of the philosophies of Socrates and Plato. Rhetoric — and his reporting of speeches — was also an important dimension of his historiography.

In Pericles's "Funeral Oration," the leading democratic statesman (and a general) of Athens eulogizes animating principles of his polis and its ideals of citizenship. It was a speech honoring war dead. What Thucydides gives us is generally considered to be imaginative re-creation of the speech. In 416 BCE Athens attacked the island of Melos, which was neutral in the war. In the second reading, "The Melian Dialogue," Thucydides reconstructs the arguments of Athenian representatives who tried to convince the Melians, who had no chance of winning, to be pragmatic and come over to the Athenian side and pay a tribute. The Melians refused the offer, believing justice and the Gods were on their side and that they might in the end be victorious, perhaps with Spartan help (they thought themselves to be of Spartan descent). Athens went on to assault and defeat them, executing Melian men and taking women and children into slavery. The "Dialogue" is a foundational text in the realist theory of international affairs.


Pericles's Funeral Oration

In the same winter the Athenians gave a funeral at the public cost to those who had first fallen in this war. It was a custom of their ancestors, and the manner of it is as follows. Three days before the ceremony, the bones of the dead are laid out in a tent which has been erected; and their friends bring to their relatives such offerings as they please. In the funeral procession cypress coffins are borne on wagons, one for each tribe, the bones of the deceased being placed in the coffin of their tribe. Among these is carried one empty bier decked for the missing, that is, for those whose bodies could not be recovered. Any citizen or stranger who pleases joins in the procession: and the female relatives are there to wail at the burial. The dead are laid in the public sepulchre in the most beautiful suburb of the city, in which those who fall in war are always buried — with the exception of those slain at Marathon, who for their singular and extraordinary valour were interred on the spot where they fell. After the bodies have been laid in the earth, a man chosen by the state, of approved wisdom and eminent reputation, pronounces over them an...

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