Freedoms Progress the History of Political Thought Part II Readings

Allen, John William. (1928) A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century. London: Menthuen & Co. Ltd.

Althusius, Johannes. (1614 [1964/1995]) Politica. An Abridged Translation of Politics Methodologically set forth and Illustrated with Sacred and Profane Examples. ed. and trans. Frederick S, Carney. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. Available at http://files.libertyfund.org/files/692/0002_Bk.pdf, accessed 1 December 2013.

Aylmer, G. E. ed. (1975) The Levellers in the English Revolution. London: Thames and Hudson.

Badhwar, Neera K. and Roderick T. Long. (2013) ‘Ayn Rand’, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available at http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2013/entries/ayn-rand/, accessed 7 September 2013.

Bakunin, Michael. (1871 [1970]) God and the State, intro. Paul Avrich. New York: Dover.

Bakunin, Michael. (1873 [1990]) Statism and Anarchy, trans. and ed. Marshall S. Shatz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought]

Ball, Terence and Richard Bellamy. (eds). (2003) The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Baylor, Michael. (1991) The Radical Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought] [[A very useful sourcebook containing material from various figures of the so-called Radical Reformation. Shorter excerpts can be found in Zuck.]

Bertram, Christopher. (2012) ‘Jean Jacques Rousseau’, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available at http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/rousseau/, accessed 7 September 2013.

Bodin, Jean. (1576 [1992]) On Sovereignty. trans. Julian H. Franklin. ed. Julian H. Franklin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Boucher, David & Paul Kelly (eds). (2009) Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. A set of essays by individual authors on various political thinkers.

Boucher, David. (2009) ‘Burke’, in Boucher & Kelly, 282-302.

Bowle, John. (1954) Politics and Opinion in the 19th Century. London: Jonathan Cape.

Burke, Edmund. (1756-1790 [1993]) Pre-Revolutionary Writings, ed. Ian Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Containing, inter alia, ‘Extempore Commonplace on The Sermon of our Saviour on the Mount’, ‘A Vindication of Natural Society’, ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’. ‘Tracts on the Popery Laws’, ‘Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents’, and ‘Conciliation with America’ (Conciliation with the Colonies).

Burke, Edmund. (1790 [1968]) Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Conor Cruise O’Brien. London: Penguin Books.

Burke, Edmund. (1790 [2003]) Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Frank M. Turner. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. With essays by Darrin M. McMahon, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Jack N. Rakove, Alan Wolfe.

Burke, Edmund. (1796 [1999]) Letters on a Regicide Peace, ed. E. J. Payne. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund. Available at http://lf-oll.s3.amazonaws.com/titles/658/0005-03_Bk.pdf, accessed 17 April 2014.

Burke, Edmund. (1854-56), The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. 6 vols. [Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies (1745)—vol. I, 464-471) (London: Henry G. Bohn).

Canning, Joseph. (1996) A History of Medieval Political Thought (300-1450). London: Routledge.

Cohen, Gerald Allen. (1995) Self-ownership, Freedom, and Equality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

d’Entrèves, A. P. (1959 [1939]) The Medieval Contribution to Political Thought: Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Richard Hooker. New York: Humanities Press.

de Tocqueville, Alexis. (1945 [1985]) Democracy in America. [Second Part] New York: Alfred Knopf.

Dunning, William Archibald. (1905) A History of Political Theories from Luther to Montesquieu. New York: The Macmillan Company. Available for reading online at https://archive.org/details/ahistorypolitic07dunngoog, accessed 7 February 2014.

Eagleton, Terry. (2011) Why Marx Was Right. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Fabre, Cecile. (2006) Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Filmer, Robert. (1635/40-1680 [1949]) Patriarcha and Other Political Works of Sir Robert Filmer, ed. Peter Laslett. Oxford: Blackwell. (As well as the Patriarcha, the Laslett volume contains The Freeholder’s Grand Inquest touching the King and His Parliament [1647/48], Observations upon Aristotle’s Politiques touching Forms of Government [1652], Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful TimesObservations concerning the Originall of Government [1651/52], The Anarchy of a Limited or Mixed Monarchy [1648], and The Necessity of the Absolute Power of all Kings. [1648])

Gierke, Otto. (1900) Political Theories of the Middle Ages, trans. Frederic William Maitland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at http://lf-oll.s3.amazonaws.com/titles/2562/Gierke_PoliticalTheories1634_Bk.pdf, accessed 25 April 2014. Also available at http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/gierke/MedPolTheo.pdf, accessed 19 May 2014.

Gimpel, Jean. (1976) The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the ddle Ages. London: Penguin. First published as La Révolution industrielle du moyen âge (1974).

Goertz, Hans-Jürgen. (1996 [1980]) The Anabaptists, trans Trevor Johnson. Routledge: London.

Godwin, William. (1793 [1946]) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness, ed. F. E. L. Priestly. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Godwin, William. (1793 [2013]) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, ed. Mark Philp. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/godwin-an-enquiry-concerning-political-justice-in-2-vols, accessed 4 June 2014. Excerpts from this book can be seen in Graham 2005 between 12-22, 171-173.

Goldberg, Jonah. (2008) Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. New York: Doubleday.

Gordon, David. (1990) Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Freedom, Exploitation, and Justice. London: Transaction Books.

Graham, Robert. (ed.) (2005) Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas: Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE to 1939). Montreal: Black Rose Books.

Graham, Robert. (ed.) (2009) Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas: Volume Two: The Anarchist Current (1939-2006). Montreal: Black Rose Books.

Gregor, A. James. (1969) The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism. New York: The Free Press.

Gregor, A. James. (2009) Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Griffin, Roger. (ed.) (1995) Fascism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Oxford Readers[ An exceptionally useful collection of excerpts from the writings of, among others, Mussolilni, D’Annunzio, George, Spengler, Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, Heidegger, Mosley, Primo de Rivera, Doriot, Quisling, Codreanu et al.

Grotius, Hugo. (1625a [2005]) The Rights of War and Peace, ed. with Introduction by Richard Tuck. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund. Reprinted and translated many times since. Jean Barbeyrac’s 1735 edition, with extensive notes and commentary, was the most important; it was translated into English and published in London by Innys et al. in 1738.

Grotius, Hugo. (1625b [2005]) ‘Prolegomena to the First Edition of De Jure Belli ac Pacis’, in Grotius 1625a, Book III, 1745-1762.

Harrington, James. (1656-1660b [1992]) The Commonwealth of Oceana & A System of Politics. ed. J. G. A. Pocock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought] Available at http://files.libertyfund.org/files/916/0050_Bk.pdf and http://www.constitution.org/jh/oceana.htm, accessed 9 January 2014.

Herbert, Auberon. (1978 [1885]) The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays, ed. Eric Mack. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Liberty Fund. This volume contains, among others, the title essay, ‘The Choices between Personal Freedom and State Protection’ and ‘A Plea for Voluntaryism’. I would place Herbert’s work in the ‘must-read’ category for all libertarians. Available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/herbert-the-right-and-wrong-of-compulsion-by-the-state-and-other-essays-1978-ed, accessed 6 July 2014.

Honderich, Ted. (1990) Conservatism. London: Penguin.

Hume, David. (1739-40 [1888]]) A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Hume, David. (1987 [1741-1777]) Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene F. Miller, rev. ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund.

Klosko, George (ed.) (2011)The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. A superb collection of brief, scholarly yet very accessible essays by different authors on a wide range of political themes and periods.

Kolakowski, Leszek. (1978) Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution, trans. P. S. Falla. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [In 3 volumes—Vol. I: The Founders; Vol. II: The Golden Age; Vol. 3: The Breakdown]

Kropotkin, Peter. (1897 [1987]) The State: Its Historic Role. London: Freedom Press.

Kropotkin, Peter. (1902b [1939]) Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. London: Penguin Books.

MacDonnell, Francis. (2004 [1995]) Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front. Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press. Previously published by Oxford University Press.

Machiavelli, Niccolò. (1513 (1532) [1988]) The Prince, eds Quentin Skinner & Russell Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought]

Machiavelli. Niccolò. (1518/19 (1531) [1970]) The Discourses, ed. Bernard Crick, trans. Leslie J. Walker. London: Penguin.

Mack, Eric. (2009) John Locke. London: Continuum.

Marsilius. (1324 [1956]) Defensor pacis, trans. with introduction by Alan Gewirth. New York: Columbia University Press.

Marsilius of Padua. (c. 1342 [1993]) Defensor minor , ed. and intro. Cary J. Nederman, Marsiliglio of Padua: Writings on the Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Marx, Karl & Friedrich Engels. (1839-1895) ‘Online Versions of the Works of Marx and Engels in Chronological Order’, available at Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/date/, accessed 25 March 2014.

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. (1848 [2002]) The Communist Manifesto, trans. Samuel Jones, introduction and notes Gareth Stedman Jones. London: Penguin. An inexpensive edition with extensive commentary and notes.

McClelland, J. S. A History of Western Political Thought. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Mencken, H. L. (1916 [1982]) A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of his Choicest Writings, ed. and annotated by H. L Mencken. New York: Vintage Books.

Mill, John Stuart. (1991) On Liberty and Other Essays, ed. John Gray. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Oxford World’s Classics]

Overton, Richard. (1646) ‘An Arrow against All Tyrants’, in Sharp 1998, 54-72.

Pagano, F. N. (1983) ‘Burke’s View of the Evils of Political Theory: or, A Vindication of Natural Society’, in Polity Vol. 16, 446-462.

Patterson, Orlando. (1991) Freedom—Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. New York: Basic Books.

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. (1840 [1994]) What is Property? ed. and trans. Donald R. Kelley and Bonnie G. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rand, Ayn. (1963) For the New Intellectual. New York: Signet. Apart from the eponymous essay, this book also contains excerpts from We the LivingAnthemThe Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Rand, Ayn. (1964a) The Virtue of Selfishness. New York: Signet.

Rand, Ayn. (1967a) Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. New York: Signet.

Rand, Ayn. (1984) Philosophy: Who Needs It. New York: Signet.

Rawls, John. (1999 [1971]) A Theory of Justice, rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rawls, John. (1999) The Law of Peoples. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Rawls, John. (2001) Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, ed. Erin Kelly. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press. [This is essentially a revision and development of A Theory of Justice in the light of criticisms and commentary.]

Rawls, John. (2008) Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press.

Rockwell, Llewellyn H. Jr. (2013) Fascism vs. Capitalism. Auburn, Alabama: Mises Institute. Available at http://library.mises.org//books/Llewellyn%20H%20Rockwell%20Jr/Fascism%20versus%20Capitalism.pdf, accessed 2 May 2014.

Rothbard, Murray N. (1958) ‘A Note on Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society’, Journal of the History of Ideas vol. 19, 114-118.

Rothbard, Murray N. (1958b) ‘Confidential Memo on F. A. Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty’. (Rothbard Papers, held at the Ludwig von Mises Institute). Also in Modugno, 61-70.

Rothbard, Murray N. (1984) ‘Fran S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué’, in Carey ed., 91-111.

Rothbard, Murray N. (1994) ‘Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation State’, in The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1-10.

Rothbard, Murray N. (1995a [2006]) Economic Thought Before Adam Smith. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Rothbard, Murray N. (1995b [2006]). Classical Economics. Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. (1750 [1997a]) Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (First Discourse), in ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch, Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. (1754a [1997a]) Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (Second Discourse), in ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch, Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. (1754b [1997a]) Discourse on Political Economy, in ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch, Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. (1762 [1997b]) Of the Social Contract, in ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch, Rousseau: The Social Contract and other Later Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. (1781 [1997a]) Essay on the Origin of Languages, ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch, Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ryley, Peter. (2013) Making Another World Possible: Anarchism, Anti-Capitalism and Ecology in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Britain. London: Bloomsbury.

Sabine, George H. (1963 [1937]). A History of Political Theory 3rd ed. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. For many years, this was the standard work in the field and for some, it still is. Very much worth reading.

Sartwell, Crispin (ed.) (2011) The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren, intro. Crispin Sartwell. New York: Fordham University Press. [See reviews by Jun and by Adams 2013]

Scott, James C. (1985) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Scott, James C. (1998) Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Scott, James C. (2009) The Art of Not Being Governed. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Scott, James C. (2012) Two Cheers for Anarchism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Scott, Jonathan. (2004) Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writings of the English Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scruton, Roger. (1980) The Meaning of Conservatism. London: Macmillan.

Smith, George H. (2013) The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Spooner, Lysander. (1992) The Lysander Spooner Reader, ed. George H. Smith. San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes.

Tucker, Benjamin. Liberty. Available at http://travellinginliberty.blogspot.ie/2007/08/index-of-liberty-site.html, accessed 2 June 2104. Also at http://www.scribd.com/doc/180757753/Liberty-Whole-Volume-One, accessed 3 June 2014.

Tucker, Benjamin. (1897 [2005]) Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One, 2nd ed. New York: Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher. Available at https://ia600406.us.archive.org/4/items/cu31924030333052/cu31924030333052.pdf, accessed 2 July 2014. Also available at http://fair-use.org/benjamin-tucker/instead-of-a-book/index, accessed 20 June 2014.

Tucker, Benjamin. (1926) Individual Liberty. New York: Vanguard Press. Reprinted by Kraus Reprint Company, 1973. Available at http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-tucker-individual-liberty, accessed 20 June 2014.

Various. (1647) ‘The Putney Debates’ (excerpt), in Sharp 1998, 102-130. See Woodhouse (ed.) (1938 [1974]). This excerpt contains the record of the discussions that took place in response to the first clause of the 1647 ‘An Agreement of the People’.

Various. (1647) ‘The Putney Debates’ (excerpt), in Wootton 2003, 285-317. See Woodhouse (ed.) (1974 [1938]).

Winstanley, Gerrard. (2010) The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley, 2 vols. eds Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes, and David Loewenstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zuck, Lowell H. (ed.) (1975) Christianity and Revolution: Radical Christian Testimonies 1520-1650. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. [A very useful sourcebook containing many short excerpts from various figures of the so-called Radical Reformation. Longer/complete versions of some of this material can be found in Baylor.]