Minerva's owl: the tradition of western political thought

Introduction: The canon of political thought

Plato's Republic: the debate over justice begins

The students revolt against Utopia

Out of the cave and into the light-and back again?

Beyond Plato's tragic republic

Aristotle's ethics: the habits of virtue

Aristotle's politics: severed hands and political animals

Augustine and the problem of evil

Machiavelli's dirty hands

Hobbes and the kingdom of means

Locke, liberalism, and the possessive life

Rousseau and the rustic

Rousseau and the political

Kant's crooked timber

John Stuart Mill and the demands of individuality

Hegel, Marx, and the owl of Minerva

The revival of political theory

Conclusion: The passion for politics.