This work is the second in the "Routledge Series of Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers." Each volume of the series presents a comprehensive selection of the critical literature commenting on the life and works of a major political philosopher. John Locke (1632-1704) is a key figure because his political philosophy was one of the foundations for both the American Constitution and the French Revolution. He defined government as based on a free contract between people which can be subsequently modified, and he stressed the importance of religious toleration. Locke also wrote...

Considers the influence of China's campaign for economic modernisation on its foreign policy and argues that such influence works within the framework of Beijing's perception of its wider geopolitical concerns.

Thomas Hobbes is arguably one of the greatest of all English philosophers. In the second half of the 20th century, he has been subject to sustained critical attention. He was capable of powerful argument on virtually any plane, whether logical, scriptural or historical. And he has attracted attention in all these areas and more - to do with questions of historical method, language and linguistics, metaphysics, ethics, law, politics, science and religion. Hobbes has been attended to from a great variety of perspectives - as an ethical positivist and a deontologist, as a bourgeois advocate and...

The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek is particularly noted as one of the premier defenders of the free market, stressing the benefits of personal liberty and arguing against economic planning. This four-volume set of Hayek's essays provides a full summary of the Nobel Prize-winner's theories.

This work is the first in the new Routledge Series of Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers. It presents a comprehensive selection of the critical literature commenting on the life and work of Karl Marx, and should be of interest to lecturers and students of politics, economics, sociology, philosophy.