Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century

Michael H. Lessnoff is Reader in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic (1994); Social Contract (1986); and The Structure of Social Science: A Philosophical Introduction (1974).

• Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.2. Max Weber and the Politics of the Twentieth Century.Part I: Critics of Consumerist Capitalism:.3. Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: The Tyranny of Instrumental Reason.4. Hannah Arendt: Classical Republicanism and the Modern World.5. C. B. Macpherson: Possessive Individualism and Liberal Democracy.Part II: Embattled Liberalism:.6. Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism and Civil Association.7. Friedruch Hayek: The Theory of Spontaneous Order.8. Karl Popper: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society.9. Isaiah Berlin: Monism and Pluralism.Part III: Contemporaries:.10. John Rawls: Liberal Justice.11. Robert Nozick: The Minimal State.12. Jurgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics and Democracy.13. Conclusion: The End of History?.Index.