The second edition of David Wootton's Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche offers a new unit on modern constitutionalism with selections from Hume, Montesquieu, the Federalist, and Constant. In addition to a new essay by Wootton, this unit features his new translation of Constant's 1819 essay "On Ancient and Modern Liberty". Other changes include expanded selections from Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy and a new Hegel selection, all of which strengthen an already excellent anthology.
Introduction; Machiavelli and the Renaissance; Hobbes, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution; John Locke, David Hume, and the Right of Revolution; Rousseau, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Revolution; Constitutionalism and the Redefinition of Liberty; J S Mill: Feminism and the Pursuit of Happiness; Marx and Marxism; Nietzsche For and Against.
