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Now greatly expanded in its third edition, <em>Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts</em> is ideal for survey courses in political philosophy. Offering unprecedented coverage from antiquity to the present, this historically organized collection presents the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. The readings are substantial or complete texts, not fragments. An especially valuable feature of this volume is that the works of each author are introduced with an engaging essay by a leading contemporary authority.<br /><br /><em>Political Philosophy</em> moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle, <strong>Cicero</strong>) through the medieval period (Augustine, Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, <strong>Spinoza, </strong> Locke, <strong>Montesquieu</strong>, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant, Hamilton and Madison, <strong>Burke, Bentham, Tocqueville</strong>). The book includes work from major nineteenth-century thinkers (Hegel, Marx