The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas

[1] Origins and conflicts of modern politics [2] Ancient republics, empires, fiefdoms [3] Machiavelli's New Order [4] Hobbes, Natural Law, the Social Contract [5] Locke on limited government and toleration [6] Rousseau's republican community [7] Kant's Ethics of Duty and Natural rights [8] Smith and the market revolution [9] Montesquieu and the American founding [10] Debating the French Revolution [11] Legacies of the revolution: right to left [12] Nationalism and a people's war [13] Civil Society: Constant, Hegel, Tocqueville [14] Mill on liberty and utility [15] Marx's critique of capitalism [16] Modern vs. traditional society [17] Progressivism and new liberalism [18] Fleeing liberalism: varieties of socialism [19] Fleeing liberalism: fascism and Carl Schmitt [20] Totalitarianism and total war [21] Conservative or neoliberal: Oakeshott, Hayek [22] Reviving the public realm: Hannah Arendt [23] Philosophy vs. politics: Strauss and friends [24] Marcuse and the new left [25] Rawls's A Theory of Justice [26] Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, libertarianism [27] What about community? [28] Walzer on everything money shouldn't buy [29] Identity politics: feminism [30] Identity politics: multiculturalism [31] Politics of nature: environmentalism [32] Postmodernism, truth, and power [33] Habermas: democracy as communication [34] End of history? Clash of civilizations? [35] Just wars? the problem of dirty hands [36] Why political philosophy matters