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By David Boucher, Paul Kelly

Political Thinkers offers a transparent and finished creation to Western political notion written via a crew of across the world well known students. This assortment presents an summary of the canon of serious theorists, from Socrates and the Sophists to modern thinkers comparable to Habermas and Foucault.

The moment version comprises new chapters on Cicero and Kant. it's also followed by means of a web source heart which includes:

· Interactive timeline of thinkers

· hyperlinks to magazine articles

· internet hyperlinks

New to this edition:

· half introductions pinpointing universal issues among thinkers

· End-of-chapter dialogue questions

· Annotated extra reading

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