This volume presents lucid and insightful lectures on three great figures from the history of political thought. It explores a range of themes in the political

Rousseau's relation to the Western intellectual tradition is re-examined through a series of 'conversations' between Rousseau and other 'great thinkers'.

If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Con

"Germino examines the scholars of this period whose works he feels have made significant new approaches to the critical understanding of our world and, conseque

A guide to the fundamentals of political thought. Zeitlin shows that certain thinkers have given us insights that rise above historical context - 'trans-histori