• Introduction: The Canon of Political Thought
1. Plato’s Republic: The Debate over Justice Begins
2. The Students Revolt against Utopia
3. Out of the Cave and into the Light—and Back Again?
4. Beyond Plato’s Tragic Republic
5. Aristotle’s Ethics: The Habits of Virtue
6. Aristotle’s Politics: Severed Hands and Political Animals
7. Augustine and the Problem of Evil
8. Machiavelli’s Dirty Hands
9. Hobbes and the Kingdom of Means
10. Locke, Liberalism, and the Possessive Life
11. Rousseau and the Rustic
12. Rousseau and the Political
13. Kant’s Crooked Timber
14. John Stuart Mill and the Demands of Individuality
15. Hegel, Marx, and the Owl of Minerva
16. The Revival of Political Theory
• Conclusion: The Passion for Politics
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Jeffrey Abramson is Professor of Government and Law and Fellow of the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Chair in Government, The University of Texas at Austin.

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