Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-400) and index.
The public sphere / Jürgen Habermas -- Liberty and revolution / Benedetto Croce -- The future of mankind / Karl Jaspers -- Justice as fairness : political not metaphysical / John Rawls -- The search for the great community / John Dewey -- The public and the private realm / Hannah Arendt -- The procedural republic and the unencumbered self / Michael J. Sandel -- On being conservative / Michael Oakeshott -- What is liberal education? / Leo Strauss -- The adversary culture and the new class / Norman Podhoretz -- Conclusion to beware anarchist! : A life for freedom / Augustin Souchy -- In the midst of crisis / Martin Buber -- Beyond the legitimate state / Robert Paul Wolff -- From the rights of man to socialism / Jean Jaurés -- Democracy and dictatorship / Rosa Luxemburg -- Liberal socialism / Carlo Rosselli -- Aphorisms on socialism / Henry M. Pachter -- What is to be done? / V.I. Lenin -- The revolution against Capital / Antonio Gramsci -- The dictatorship of the proletariat / Josef Stalin -- On the correct handling of contradictions among the people / Mao Tse-tung -- Scenes and doctrines of nationalism / Maurice Barrés -- Fundamental ideas / Benito Mussolini -- What the falange wants / Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera -- Nation and race / Adolf Hitler -- The state of contemporary philosophy and the tasks of an institute for social research / Max Horkheimer -- Theses on the philosophy of history / Walter Benjamin -- Liberation from the affluent society / Herbert Marcuse -- Introduction to The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge / Jean-François Lyotard -- Truth and power / Michel Foucault -- Contingent foundations / Judith Butler -- Introduction to orientalism / Edward W. Said -- The doctrine of the sword / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Concerning violence / Frantz Fanon -- Building new men / Che Guevara -- Socialism and the American Negro / W.E.B. DuBois -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- Introduction to The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Introduction to The politics of women's liberation / Jo Freeman -- Conclusion to Woman's consciousness, man's world / Sheila Rowbotham -- The master's tools / Audre Lorde -- Ecology and freedom / Andre Gorz -- Epilogue to The death of nature / Carloyn Merchant -- The world as laboratory / Ulrich Beck -- The end of history? / Francis Fukuyama -- Into the future / Stephen Eric Bronner.
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This book covers the major themes of twentieth century political theory and consists of selected extracts by political theorists. Democratic socialism, communism, fascism, conservatism, critical theory, post-modernism, communitarianism, post-colonialism, gender, and, the 'end of history' are included. Theorists include Habermas, Rawls, Dewey, Arendt, Buber, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Marcuse, Foucault, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Fukuyama, and many others. It is a useful source of selected readings.