Stephen Bronner is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Politics and New Political Science. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Moments of Decision (Routledge, 1992), which won APSA's Michael Harrington Book Award.

"This collection combines a comprehensive sweep with a deep vision of the past and present of political theory. Should be enormously useful in a great many settings." -- Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute"It shows the pleasure and the necessity of defining thepolitical and of constantly holding it open in the wake of the transformations of 1989. And just because it is theoretically oriented, it indicates the necessity of rethinking and of returning constantly to the past of political theory if we are to think anew about contemporary politics." -- Richard C. Howard, author of The Marxian Legacy and Political Judgements"This is a comprehensive and compelling collection that breaks new ground, not only by assembling diverse texts from the rich tapestry of twentieth century political thought, but by offering new ways to categorize these texts. This book will be useful in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in the Western tradition. It is truly a gem." -- Elizabeth E. Kelly, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, DePaul University, Chicago

• Part I: Toward a Theory of Democracy 1. The LiberalIdea: Jürgen Habermas--The Public Sphere; BenedettoCroce-Liberty and Revolution; John Rawls--Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical 2.Communitarianism and Culture: John Dewey--The Search for the Great Community ; Hannah Arendt--The Public and the Private Realm; Michael Sandel--The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self; Robert Putnam--Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital 3. TheConservative Disposition: Michael Oakeshott--On Being Conservative; Carl Schmitt--Defining the Political; LeoStrauss--What is Liberal Education?; NormanPodhoretz--The Adversary Culture and the New Class 4.Anarchism and Freedom: Augustin Souchy--A Life for Freedom; Martin Buber--In the Midst of Crisis; RobertPaul Wolff--Beyond the Legitimate State Part II:Grand Narratives 5. Nationalism and Beyond: MauriceBarrés--Scenes and Doctrines of Nationalism; TheodorHerzl--The Jewish Question; Frantz Fanon--Concerning Violence; Martha C. Nussbaum--Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism 6. Democratic Socialism:EduardBernstein--The Socialist Conception of Democracy; RosaLuxemburg--Democracy and Dictatorship; CarloRosselli--Liberal Socialism; Henry M. Pachter--Aphorisms on Socialism 7. Communism and Revolution: V.I.Lenin-- What is to Be Done?; Antonio Gramsci--The Revolution Against Capital; Josef Stalin--The Dictatorship of the Proletariat; Che Guevara--Building New Men 8. The Fascist World View:BenitoMussolini--Fundamental Ideas; Jose Antonio Primo deRivera--What the Falange Wants; Adolf Hitler--Nation and Race; Andrew Macdonald--Excerpts from The Turner Diaries 9. Religion and Politics: Max Weber--On the Tension Between Religion and Politics; Mohandas K. Gandhi--The Doctrine of the Sword; Ayatollah Khomeini--Islam and Revolution Part III: Radical Voices 10. CriticalTheory: Max Horkheimer--The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research; Frederick Pollock--State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations; Theodor W. Adorno--The Culture Industry Reconsidered; HerbertMarcuse--Liberation from the Affluent Society 11.The African-American Heritage:W.E.B. Dubois--Of Our Spiritual Strivings; Martin Luther King, Jr.--Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Malcolm X--The Ballot or the Bullet; Cornel West--Nihilism in Black America 12. GenderedExperiences: Simone de Beauvoir--Introduction to The Second Sex; Carole Pateman--The End of the Story?; Catharine A. MacKinnon--Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination; Audre Lorde--The Master's Tools 13.Postmodern Perspectives: Jean-François Lyotard--The Postmodern; Judith Butler--Contingent Foundations; EdwardW. Said--Orientalism Part IV: Charting theFuture 15. Charting the Future: Francis Fukuyama--The End of History?; Samuel P. Huntington--The Clash of Civilizations?; Stephen Eric Bronner--The End of History Revisited