Princeton readings in political thought : essential texts since Plato / Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Pericles' funeral oration / Thucydides -- The apology ; The republic / Plato -- The politics / Aristotle -- On the republic / Cicero -- City of God / St. Augustine -- Politics and law / St. Thomas Aquinas -- The book of the city of ladies / Christine de Pizan -- The prince ; Discourses on Livy / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Christian in society / Martin Luther -- God and political duty / John Calvin -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Second treatise of government / John Locke -- On the social contract ; Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --The wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- The Federalist papers / Publius -- Declaration of the rights of man and citizen -- Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- Declaration of the rights of women and citizens / Marie-Olympes de Gouges -- A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- On liberty ; On the subjection of women / John Stuart Mill -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Philosophy of right / G.W.F. Hegel --

A contribution to the critique of political economy ; Estranged labour ; The Communist manifesto ; After the revolution ; Capital / Karl Marx -- On the genealogy of morals / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Politics as a vocation / Max Weber -- The ruling class / Gaetano Mosca -- Political parties / Robert Michels -- What is to be done? ; The state and revolution / V.I. Lenin -- Civilization and its discontents ; Totem and taboo ; Why war? / Sigmund Freud -- Victims of morality / Emma Goldman -- Fascism / Benito Mussolini -- The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- What is political philosophy? / Leo Strauss -- In defense of equality / Michael Walzer -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- Anarchy, state and utopia / Robert Nozick -- The public sphere / Jürgen Habermas -- Discipline and punish / Michael Foucault..