Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Introduction: Philosophy, Science, Ideology (Leonard Tivey) 2. Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition (Margaret Canovan) 3. Robert Dahl and American Pluralism (Leonard Tivey) 4. Jurgen Habermas and Neo-Marxism (Howard Williams and Jon Fearon-Jones) 5. F.A. Hayek and Market Liberalism (Norman Barry) 6. C.B. Macpherson, Democracy and Possessive Individualism (Anthony Wright) 7. Michael Oakeshott and Sceptical Conservatism (Robert Eccleshall) 8. John Rawls, Justice and Well-Ordered Society (Peter Lassman)

About the Author

Edited by Leonard J. Tivey, formerly of the University of Birmingham, UK and Anthony Wright, formerly of the House of Commons, London, UK

Reviews

'This book provides an excellent survey of the main issues and themes in western political thought since the second world war. It brings together seven illuminating essays by leading scholars on Arendt, Dahl, Habermas, Hayek, Macpherson, Oakeshott and Rawls.'
*Julia Stapleton, Political Studies*

'This book tackles its very ambitious task in an imaginative way.'
*C. Woodard, AJPH*