| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Plato | p. 7 |
| The Republic | p. 11 |
| The Republic and the "Limits of Politics" | p. 30 |
| Response to Hall | p. 42 |
| Aristotle | p. 52 |
| Nicomachean Ethics | p. 56 |
| Politics | p. 60 |
| Aristotle's Understanding of the Naturalness of the City | p. 73 |
| Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World | p. 84 |
| Saint Augustine | p. 94 |
| The City of God | p. 97 |
| The State: The Return of Order Upon Disorder | p. 114 |
| The Two Cities in Augustine's Political Philosophy | p. 123 |
| Saint Thomas Aquinas | p. 132 |
| Summa Theologica | p. 136 |
| On Kingship | p. 154 |
| On Thomistic Natural Law: The Bad Man's View of Thomistic Natural Right | p. 157 |
| The Mixed Constitution and the Distinction between Regal and Political Power in the Work of Thomas Aquinas | p. 171 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | p. 182 |
| The Prince | p. 185 |
| The Discourses | p. 193 |
| Public Versus Private Claims: Machiavellianism from Another Perspective | p. 202 |
| Trapping the Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception | p. 211 |
| Thomas Hobbes | p. 229 |
| Leviathan | p. 233 |
| The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism | p. 252 |
| The Art of Government | p. 263 |
| John Locke | p. 275 |
| The Second Treatise of Government | p. 279 |
| The Law of Nature in Locke's Second Treatise: Is Locke a Hobbesian? | p. 299 |
| Locke's Second Treatise and "The Best Fence Against Rebellion" | p. 313 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | p. 327 |
| Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality | p. 331 |
| On the Social Contract | p. 338 |
| Rousseau, Nature and History | p. 361 |
| The Concept of the General Will | p. 371 |
| Edmund Burke | p. 378 |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France | p. 381 |
| Burke | p. 393 |
| The Critique of Political Radicalism | p. 399 |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | p. 404 |
| The Philosophy of History | p. 408 |
| The Philosophy of Right | p. 415 |
| History and Politics | p. 426 |
| What Is "Right" in Hegel's Philosophy of Right? | p. 439 |
| Karl Marx | p. 455 |
| Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts | p. 459 |
| The German Ideology | p. 465 |
| Capital | p. 475 |
| The Theory of Alienation | p. 481 |
| Gone Fishing: Making Sense of Marx's Concept of Communism | p. 496 |
| John Stuart Mill | p. 508 |
| On Liberty | p. 511 |
| The Subjection of Women | p. 525 |
| John Stuart Mill: On Liberty and History | p. 534 |
| Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women | p. 543 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | p. 557 |
| Beyond Good and Evil | p. 561 |
| The Genealogy of Morals | p. 575 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration | p. 583 |
| Nietzsche and Political Thought | p. 593 |
| Hannah Arendt | p. 603 |
| The Human Condition | p. 606 |
| Hannah Arendt | p. 621 |
| Motive and Goal in Hannah Arendt's Concept of Political Action | p. 636 |
| John Rawls | p. 649 |
| A Theory of Justice | p. 652 |
| "Justice as Fairness: Political, Not Metaphysical" | p. 668 |
| The Central Role of Rawls's Theory | p. 678 |
| Pluralism and Social Unity | p. 684 |
| Jurgen Habermas | p. 697 |
| Knowledge and Human Interests | p. 701 |
| Legitimation Crisis | p. 710 |
| Habermas and Modernity | p. 720 |
| Crisis Tendencies, Legitimation and the State | p. 733 |
| Index | p. 747 |
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