Suggested Readings

The following readings supplement those suggested in Chapter 5 of the text.

  • Berkowitz, Peter. Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

  • Deneen, Patrick. The Odyssey of Political Theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

  • Grant, Ruth. John Locke’s Liberalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

  • Kekes, John. Moral Wisdom and Good Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.

  • MacPherson, C. B. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

  • Mills, Charles. The Radical Contract. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.

  • Nichols, Mary. Citizens and Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle’s Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992.

  • Shklar, Judith. Men and Citizens: A Study of Rousseau’s Social Theory. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

  • Scruton, Roger. The Meaning of Conservatism. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2002.

  • Urbinati, Nadia. Mill on Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

  • Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

  • Zuckert, Catherine. Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.