Reappraising Political Theory

Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx, and Foucault - what really links these and other `classic'' political theorists? Not, argues Terence Ball, their common status as `dead, white, European males'', but instead the exciting and compelling way in which they can speak to us today.Professor Ball begins by setting out his liberating view of the way we should approach `classic'' texts. Using...