Machine generated contents note: 1.On politics -- Introduction -- Political naturalism in Aristotle -- Classical and medieval political thought -- Machiavelli -- Social physics -- From politics to political philosophy -- A critique of May's taxonomy -- 2.On political philosophy -- Normativity: A survey -- An alternative taxonomy -- On political modernity -- 3.Liberalism -- Representationalism -- Human nature -- Normativity -- Politics -- Economics -- 4.Socialism -- Hegel, historicism, and holism -- The social conception of human nature -- Morality versus science -- The politics and economics of socialism -- From modernity to anarchism -- 5.Anarchism -- History of the bogeyman -- Defining anarchism -- The political axiology of anarchism -- Anarchism and power -- Anarchism and utopianism -- Nature, humanity, and science -- The specter of Nietzsche -- Conclusion -- 6.Political postmodernity -- Defining postmodernity -- Deconstructive analysis -- Genealogical analysis -- Poststructuralist anarchism? -- Schizoanalysis -- A critique of May's poststructuralist anarchism -- Conclusion