{"product_id":"a-history-of-political-thought-by-bruce-haddock-9780745640853","title":"A History of Political Thought","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought, tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient Greece, through different forms of community, state and empire, to today's global concerns. Bruce Haddock highlights the bewildering variety of contexts that have framed political thinking, yet also displays structural features that have proved to be remarkably stable over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn important theme in the book is the need to see political philosophy, even in its most abstract formulations, as a response to historically contingent circumstances, without limiting its relevance to those circumstances. The emphasis throughout is on political thinking as a response to hard choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMajor thinkers covered include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Lenin, Schmitt, Nietzsche, Foucault, Oakeshott, and Rawls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book treats political philosophy and theory as a tentative engagement with a fractured and controversial past. Yet political thinking remains the exercise of a burden of responsibility that is inescapable for us. Haddock introduces a history that continues to shape our understanding of ourselves as political and historical creatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Political Thought\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462587007212,"sku":"9780745640853","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745640853-a-history-of-political-thought.jpg?v=1775016869","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-history-of-political-thought-by-bruce-haddock-9780745640853","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}