Political Science

3GE Collection on Political Science: Political Thought

3GE Collection on Political Science: Political Thought

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    • This volume offers an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the history of international political thought.
    • Covers the most recent developments in Islamic political thought and the most recent historical scholarship.
    • The book will be of interest to students and academics in political theory, sociology, social policy and cultural studies.

Politics is a phenomenon establish in all clusters, organizations and civilizations, cutting crossways private and public life. It is expressed in all the dealings, organizations and buildings that are implicated in the manufacture and reproduction of the life of civilizations. Politics creates and circumstances all characteristics of our lives and it is at the center of the growth of communal troubles, and the manners of their settlements. Political theory seeks to understand, explain and analyze the political phenomena and prescribe ways and means to rectify the shortcomings. Political theory is relevant today, not only to make explicit the implicit assumptions comprising life in liberal or capitalist democracies, but also to criticize those assumptions from outside the shared conventions of the present and to safeguard political language from the incoherence and insignificance of contemporary speech. Political theory is a complex subject because in the Western tradition, it is at least 2300 years old and has been attended to by philosophers, theologians, kings, economists, sociologists, popes and others. Moreover, because of the diversity and changes in the socio-economic circumstances, there have been substantial changes both in the subject matter of political theory and the methods of studying it.


This book entitled “Political Thought” aims to provide an introduction to the great texts of modern political theory; examine the meaning and justification of important concepts such as sovereignty, freedom, equality and rights; explore rival theoretical frameworks such as natural law, utilitarianism, egalitarianism, communitarianism and Marxism, through the analysis of classic texts; develop critical skills necessary to examine and assess complex theoretical arguments and assess their strengths and weaknesses. Academics cannot achieve the intellectual independence of the Enlightenment ideal but they can understand their economic situation and attempt to construct multiple dependencies to attempt to preserve some semblance of academic freedom. The history of political thought facilitates self-understanding. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in political theory, sociology, social policy and cultural studies.

The text provides key insights into how this emerging political form is understood, defended and criticised. The text also covers the nature and purpose of political theory in a world of states.