HOW TO THINK POLITICALLY

A one-stop guide to the essential thinkers in political philosophy, from Confucius via Marx to Nussbaum, this book shines the light of political reason into the darkest corners of our troubled modern times

How to Think Politically showcases the most powerful and influential ideas that politics has to offer, introducing readers to a moral seriousness and intellectual depth foreign to the present age of reality TV and government-by-Twitter. The authors take the reader on a tour of more than two millennia of political thought, exploring the ideas of figures as diverse as: Confucius; St Augustine; Niccolò Machiavelli; Mary Wollstonecraft; Karl Marx; Mohandas Gandhi; Sayyid Qutb; Hannah Arendt; Arne Naess and John Rawls. In an uncertain political age, no independent reader or student can afford to be without this indispensable guide.

James Bernard Murphy is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, where he has taught since 1990. His most recent book is A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: René Girard in Dialogue (2018). Graeme Garrard has taught political thought at Cardiff University, UK since 1995 and at the Harvard Summer School, USA since 2006. He has lectured at colleges and universities in Canada, the United States, Britain and France for 25 years. Country of residence: USA, UK