Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Approaches
1: Mark Bevir: The Contextual Approach
2: Catherine Zuckert: The Straussian Approach
3: Joshua Dienstag: Postmodern Approaches to the History of Political Thought
4: Terence Ball: The Value of the History of Political Philosophy
5: John Gunnell: History of Political Philosophy as Discipline
II Chronological Periods
6: Danielle Allen: The Origins of Political Philosophy
7: Daniel Devereux: Classical Political Philosophy: Plato & Aristotle
8: Phillip Mitsis: Hellenistic Political Theory
9: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe: Early Christian Political Philosophy
10: Donald Kelley: Influence of Roman Law
11: Charles Butterworth: Arabic Contributions to Medieval Political Theory
12: Janet Coleman: Medieval Political Theory c. 1000-1500
13: Mikael Hörnqvist: Renaissance Political Philosophy
14: Michael Baylor: Political Thought in the Age of the Reformation
15: Anthony Pagden: The School of Salamanca
16: Jeffrey Collins: The Early Modern Foundations of Classic Liberalism
17: Mark Goldie: Absolutism
18: Richard Whatmore: Enlightenment Political Philosophy
19: Neil McArthur: Scottish Enlightenment
20: Jeremy Jennings: Early Nineteenth-Century Liberalism
21: Paul Redding: German Idealism
22: Jonathan Beecher: Socialism
23: Terrell Carver: Marxian Tradition
24: David Weinstein: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Liberalism
25: Peter Lassman: Political Philosophy and the Idea of a Social Science
26: George Klosko: Contemporary Political Philosophy: Anglo-American
27: Stephen White: Contemporary Continental Political Thought
28: Terry Nardin: Political Philosophy in a Globalizing World
III Themes
29: Mark Warren: Democracy
30: Kenneth Pennington: Rights
31: Christopher W. Morris: The State
32: Daniel Philpott: Sovereignty
33: Johann Sommerville: The Social Contract (Contract of Government)
34: Richard Bellamy: Citizenship
35: David Schmidtz: Property
36: Jonathan Wolff: Equality
37: Raymond Plant: Freedom
38: Bernard Boxill: Douglass and Hobbes on Fear, Imagination, and Slavery
39: Krishan Kumar: Imperialism
40: Donald Moon: The Idea of the Welfare State
41: Eric Mack: Libertarianism
42: Perez Zagorin: Religious Toleration
43: Richard Dagger: Republicanism
44: George Klosko: Political Obligation
45: Marshall Shatz: Anarchism
46: Nancy Hirschmann: Feminism
47: Julian Franklin: Animal Rights and Political Theory
IV Non-Western Perspectives
48: David Wong: Confucian Political Philosophy
49: Shahrough Ahkavi: The Muslim Tradition of Political Philosophy
50: Dennis Dalton: Hindu Political Philosophy

About the Author

George Klosko is Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He works in both normative political theory and the history of political theory.

Reviews

skilfully edited, contains numerous excellent chapters and deserves a wide readership. ... a valuable conspectus of arguments and traditions over a huge time span. ... the overall standard of the chapters is high and they can serve as handy overviews for advanced students and non-specialists.
*Duncan Bell, Political Theory*

Undoubtedly, this collection of essays in the Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy will be of interest to historians and other scholars of political philosophy, political theory and political thought.
*Erik De Bom, History of Political Thought*