Mitchell Cohen - Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts from Plato to Populism

Princeton Readings in Political Thought

Princeton Readings
in Political Thought

ESSENTIAL TEXTS FROM PLATO
TO POPULISM

Second Edition

Edited by Mitchell Cohen

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cover art: Delphic Sibyl (fresco) from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Buonarroti, Michelangelo (14751564) / Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City / Bridgeman Images All Rights Reserved

Original edition, edited by Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon, published by Princeton University Press 1996

Second edition published 2018

Library of Congress Control Number 2017954553

ISBN 978-0-691-15997-3

British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Most of the selections in this book have been edited. Footnotes have sometimes been abridged, rearranged, or deleted by the editor. For full references, readers are directed to the original editions.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Excerpt from The Treatise on Law from St. Thomas Aquinas: On Politics and Ethics, A Norton Critical Edition, edited and translated by Paul E. Sigmund. Copyright 1988 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

From The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. Copyright 1973, 1968, 1966, 1958, 1951, 1948 by Hannah Arendt and renewed 2001, 1996, 1994, 1986 by Lotte Kohler. Copyright renewed 1979 by Mary McCarthy West. Copyright renewed 1976 by Hannah Arendt. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, vol. 2, edited by Jonathan Barnes. Bollingen Series LXXI, Part 2. Copyright 1984 by The Jowett Copyright Trustees. Published by Princeton University Press.

Excerpts from the book The Political Writings of St. Augustine, edited and with an introduction by Henry Paolucci. Copyright 1962. Published by Regnery Gateway. All rights reserved. Reprinted by special permission of Regnery Inc. Washington, D.C.

Introduction from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir and translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Translation copyright 2009 by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Also published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited.

From The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Revised Edition,Vol. 3, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Published by Little, Brown, 1865.

From On God and Political Duty by John Calvin, edited by John T. McNeill. Published by Liberal Arts Press, 1950, 1956.

Volume XVI, De Re Publica, de Legibus, translated by Clinton Walker Keyes, Loeb Classical Library Volume 213, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, first published 1928. Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

1989 and After: What Is to Be Learned? by Mitchell Cohen, from Dissent, Fall 2009. Reprinted by permission of Dissent Magazine and the University of Pennsylvania Press. Copyright 2009 by Dissent Magazine.

From Creative DemocracyThe Task Before Us (1939). Published in John Dewey: The Later Works, 19251953; Volume 14: 19391941. Copyright 1988 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University Press.

Einsteins letter in Why War?: Albert Einstein to Sigmund Freud, July 20, 1932, Archival Call Number 92-350. Courtesy of Princeton University Press.

Excerpts from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, translated by Constance Farrington. English translation copyright 1963 by Prsence Africaine. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Csaire: Excerpt from Les Armes Miraculeuses by Aim Csaire. Copyright Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1970. Reprinted with permission.

Excerpt from Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 19541984, Michel Foucault. Copyright 1994 by Editions Gallimard. Compliation, introduction, and new translations 2000 by The New Press. Reprinted by permission of The New Press, www.thenewpress.com, and also reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

Excerpt from Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey. Copyright 1961 by James Strachey, renewed 1989 by Alix Strachey. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., and The Marsh Agency Ltd on behalf of Sigmund Freud Copyrights. Extracts from Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud, translated and edited by James Strachey. Published by Hogarth Press. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. Freuds letter in Why War? from Collected Papers by Sigmund Freud. Copyright 1959. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a division of PBG Publishing, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., and The Marsh Agency Ltd on behalf of Sigmund Freud Copyrights.

Excerpt from The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama from The National Interest, Number 16, Summer 1989. Copyright 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author and International Creative Management. All rights reserved.

Victims of Morality by Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, March 1913, as published in Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader, edited by Alix Kates Shulman, Humanity Books, 1996. Used by permission of Alix Kates Shulman.

A Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens, Document 26, by Marie-Olympes de Gouges, from Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, Volume One, 17501880, ed. Susan Groag Bell and Karen M. Offen. Copyright 1983 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Stanford University Press, sup.org.

Excerpt from Jrgen Habermas on Society and Politics: A Reader, edited by Steve Seidman. Copyright 1989 by Beacon Press. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

The Power of the Powerless, abridged excerpt from Open Letters: Selected Writings 19651990 by Vclav Havel, selected and edited by Paul Wilson. Preface and Translations copyright 1985, 1988, 1991 by Paul Wilson. Czech originals copyright by Vclav Havel. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Vclav Havel via DILIA, Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House USA LLC and Faber & Faber Ltd. All rights reserved.

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