Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology (2nd Edition)

By Brian R. Nelson

Book Overview

This text presents the terms, ideas, and dilemmas of Western political thought through an analysis of a limited number of major thinkers - from the pre-Socratics to the contemporary era. It views the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131911724
• ISBN13: 9780131911727
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Get ready to think

covers all of the basic philosophers and interprets them fairly accurately with a good deal of value added information.

Just go buy it

I originally purchased this book for a Poli Sci class and lost it sometime after the class. A few years later I desperately wanted to re-read certain portions ( turned out to be all of it ) and actually bought it again. While it's obviously a summarization of many political ideologies, the breadth of information is excellent.

One of the best social science books I've read

I first read the book in POLSC 201: Intro to Political Theory. I found the book to be well written and easy to understand. I kept the book after the course was over and have since referred back to this book for many other classes. I recommend this book to all Liberal Arts and Social Science majors.