Twentieth Century Political Theory : A Reader (Paperback, 2 ed)

Part I: Toward a Theory of Democracy 1. The Liberal Idea: Jurgen Habermas--The Public Sphere; Benedetto Croce-Liberty and Revolution; John Rawls--Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical 2. Communitarianism and Culture: John Dewey--The Search for the Great Community ; Hannah Arendt--The Public and the Private Realm; Michael Sandel--The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self; Robert Putnam--Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital 3. The Conservative Disposition: Michael Oakeshott--On Being Conservative; Carl Schmitt--Defining the Political; Leo Strauss--What is Liberal Education?; Norman Podhoretz--The Adversary Culture and the New Class 4. Anarchism and Freedom: Augustin Souchy--A Life for Freedom; Martin Buber--In the Midst of Crisis; Robert Paul Wolff--Beyond the Legitimate State Part II: Grand Narratives 5. Nationalism and Beyond: Maurice Barres--Scenes and Doctrines of Nationalism; Theodor Herzl--The Jewish Question; Frantz Fanon--Concerning Violence; Martha C. Nussbaum--Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism 6. Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein--The Socialist Conception of Democracy; Rosa Luxemburg--Democracy and Dictatorship; Carlo Rosselli--Liberal Socialism; Henry M. Pachter--Aphorisms on Socialism 7. Communism and Revolution: V.I. Lenin-- What is to Be Done?; Antonio Gramsci--The Revolution Against Capital; Josef Stalin--The Dictatorship of the Proletariat; Che Guevara--Building New Men 8. The Fascist World View: Benito Mussolini--Fundamental Ideas; Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera--What the Falange Wants; Adolf Hitler--Nation and Race; Andrew Macdonald--Excerpts from The Turner Diaries 9. Religion and Politics: Max Weber--On the Tension Between Religion and Politics; Mohandas K. Gandhi--The Doctrine of the Sword; Ayatollah Khomeini--Islam and Revolution Part III: Radical Voices 10. Critical Theory: Max Horkheimer--The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research; Frederick Pollock--State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations; Theodor W. Adorno--The Culture Industry Reconsidered; Herbert Marcuse--Liberation from the Affluent Society 11. The African-American Heritage: W.E.B. Dubois--Of Our Spiritual Strivings; Martin Luther King, Jr.--Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Malcolm X--The Ballot or the Bullet; Cornel West--Nihilism in Black America 12. Gendered Experiences: Simone de Beauvoir--Introduction to The Second Sex; Carole Pateman--The End of the Story?; Catharine A. MacKinnon--Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination; Audre Lorde--The Master's Tools 13. Postmodern Perspectives: Jean-Francois Lyotard--The Postmodern; Judith Butler--Contingent Foundations; Edward W. Said--Orientalism Part IV: Charting the Future 15. Charting the Future: Francis Fukuyama--The End of History?; Samuel P. Huntington--The Clash of Civilizations?; Stephen Eric Bronner--The End of History Revisited