Modern political thought : readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

1. Machiavelli and the Renaissance

Machiavelli (1469-1527). Letter to Vettori (1513). The Prince (1513-16). Disourses (c. 1517) [selections]

2. Hobbes, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution

Calvin (1509-1564). On Civil Government (1536-60)

Hobbes (1588-1679). Leviathan (1651)

3. John Locke, David Hume, and the Right of Revolution

Locke (1632-1704). Second Treatise of Government (1689)

Hume (1711-1776). Of the Original Contract (1748)

4. Rousseau, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Revolution

Rousseau (1712-1778). Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1755). On the Social Contract (1762)

Smith (1723-1790). Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759-90) [selections]

Burke (1730-1797). Reflections on the Revolution in France (1789-90) [selections]

Kant (1724-1804). An Answer to the Question: What Is Engligthenment? (1784)

5. J.S. Mill: Feminism and the Pursuit of Happiness

Bentham (1748-1832). An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (1780) [selections]

Mill (1806-1873). On liberty (1859). The subjection of women (1869)

6. Marx and Marxism

Hegel (1770-1831). Elements of the Philosophy of right (1821) [selections]

Marx (1818-1883). On the Jewish question (1843). Toward a critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right : introduction (1844). Alienated labor from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Theses on Feuerbach (1845)

Marx and Engels (1820-1895). The German ideology (1845) [selections]. The Communist Manifesto (1848)

Marx. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) [selections]. Contributions to the critique of political economy : preface (1859). Capital (1867) [selections]. The Civil War in France (1871) [selections]. Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) [selections]

7. Nietzsche for and against. Nietzsche (1844-1900). On the Geneaology of Morals (1887) [selections]. Preface. First essay. Second essay