A collection of twenty-one essays written over Shklar's forty-year career as a professor at Harvard University.

Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the lives and ideas of some of the most influential figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the p

This book contains studies of four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition: Machiavelli, whose name is a byword for duplicity, Hobb

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive introduction to the history of Western political thought includes two new chapters on Cicero and Kant