Product Description
A collection of 14 essays on political thought. They span thinkers such as Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Marx, and end with views of 20th-century philosophers such as Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt.
What is the state, and what should it be? How can it be organised, constructed, improved, overcome? Would society be better without state intervention?
Accompanied the BBC Series of the same name
Hardcover, BBC Books, 1984
An ideal introductory book for classic political philosophy.