| Acknowledgments | |
| Thinking Politically: An Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | Thucydides | |
| Pericles' Funeral Oration | 13 |
| 2 | Plato | |
| The Apology | 19 |
| The Republic | 39 |
| 3 | Aristotle | |
| The Politics | 107 |
| 4 | Cicero | |
| On The Republic | 124 |
| 5 | St. Augustine | |
| City of God | 133 |
| 6 | St. Thomas Aquinas | |
| Politics and Law | 144 |
| 7 | Christine de Pizan | |
| The Book of the City of Ladies | 153 |
| 8 | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| The Prince | 167 |
| Discourses on Livy | 188 |
| 9 | Martin Luther | |
| The Christian in Society | 194 |
| 10 | John Calvin | |
| God and Political Duty | 200 |
| 11 | Thomas Hobbes | |
| Leviathan | 205 |
| 12 | John Locke | |
| Second Treatise of Government | 243 |
| 13 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| On the Social Contract | 280 |
| Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men | 293 |
| 14 | Adam Smith | |
| The Wealth of Nations | 314 |
| 15 | Publius | |
| The Federalist Papers | 335 |
| 16 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | 347 |
| 17 | Edmund Burke | |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France | 349 |
| 18 | Marie-Olympes de Gouges | |
| Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens | 356 |
| 19 | Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 362 |
| 20 | Jeremy Bentham | |
| An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | 371 |
| 21 | John Stuart Mill | |
| On Liberty | 375 |
| On the Subjection of Women | 388 |
| 22 | Alexis de Tocqueville | |
| Democracy in America | 398 |
| 23 | G. W. F. Hegel | |
| Philosophy of Right | 425 |
| 24 | Karl Marx | |
| A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy | 435 |
| Estranged Labour | 438 |
| The Communist Manifesto | 448 |
| After the Revolution | 464 |
| Capital | 465 |
| 25 | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| On the Genealogy of Morals | 467 |
| 26 | Max Weber | |
| Politics as a Vocation | 499 |
| 27 | Gaetano Mosca | |
| The Ruling Class | 512 |
| 28 | Robert Michels | |
| Political Parties | 524 |
| 29 | V. I. Lenin | |
| What Is to Be Done? | 530 |
| The State and Revolution | 534 |
| 30 | Sigmund Freud | |
| Civilization and Its Discontents | 544 |
| Totem and Taboo | 551 |
| Why War? | 556 |
| 31 | Emma Goldman | |
| Victims of Morality | 566 |
| 32 | Benito Mussolini | |
| Fascism | 571 |
| 33 | Hannah Arendt | |
| The Origins of Totalitarianism | 575 |
| 34 | George Orwell | |
| Politics and the English Language | 591 |
| 35 | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| The Second Sex | 601 |
| 36 | Frantz Fanon | |
| The Wretched of the Earth | 615 |
| 37 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | 623 |
| 38 | Malcolm X | |
| The Ballot or the Bullet | 636 |
| 39 | Leo Strauss | |
| What Is Political Philosophy? | 642 |
| 40 | Michael Walzer | |
| In Defense of Equality | 656 |
| 41 | John Rawls | |
| A Theory of Justice | 669 |
| 42 | Robert Nozick | |
| Anarchy, State and Utopia | 698 |
| 43 | Jurgen Habermas | |
| The Pu |
