Preface -- The dawn of history -- The Sophists and the Polis -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Slavery -- From Antipolis to Cosmopolis -- Christianity -- Augustine -- After Rome -- Gown and town -- Thomas Aquinas -- Marsilius of Padua - intimations of modernity -- Niccolò Machiavelli -- The Reformation -- Jean Bodin: apostle of sovereignty -- The road not taken: Johannes Althusius -- Hugo Grotius -- Leviathan - that mortal god: Thomas Hobbes -- The English Revolution -- John Locke -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Politics naturalised: David Hume -- Kant: freedom, property and the state -- Edmund Burke -- Hegel: transcendent genius or clumsy charlatan? -- John Stuart Mill -- Back to the future: Karl Marx -- The anarchist prophets -- The classical anarchists -- The anglophone anarchists -- Twentieth-century tribalisms -- War -- Rand, Hayek, Nozick, Rothbard and Rawls -- A valediction. |