With his views within the history of political philosophy, the English political theorist Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) became a classic representative of the school of English empiricism. He built a ...

POLITICAL THEORY is the study of politics, concepts, and the historical record of political thought. Our Theory program is distinguished by the strengths of faculty and students in grounding critical ...

Thomas Pangle, author of numerous acclaimed studies spanning the entire history of political philosophy from Socrates to today’s various postmodernisms, is arguably the most prominent and accomplished ...

Quentin Skinner and the contested history of liberty. Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free ...

Jan-Werner Müller, a renowned scholar in democratic theory and the history of political thought, has been named the Class of 1943 University Professor of Politics. University Professorships are ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2025 issue of The Independent Review. Political Philosophy: The Basics largely lives up to its promise of introducing students to modern political ...