Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 'How To' Guide -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Story of Human Society -- Timeline: From Prehistory to Plato -- 1. Plato's Utopia -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From the First Exams to the Renaissance Artists -- 2. Niccolò Machiavelli and the Psychology of the State -- Works -- Influence -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From the Age of Discovery to the English Revolution -- 3. Hobbes' Wicked World -- Work -- Influence -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From the English Dictatorship to the First Taxes -- 4. John Locke: The True End of Civil Government -- Work -- Influence -- The Rights of Man? -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From 'Free Trade' to the Slave Trade -- 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Inequality or Freedom? -- Works -- On Inequality -- Influence -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From Standardising English to Numbering Houses -- 6. Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations -- Work -- Influence -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From Air Travel to the First Railways -- 7. Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto -- Context -- Influence -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From Roads Paved with Tarmac to Roads Paved with Gold -- 8. The Principles of Political Economy: J. S. Mill and the Limits of Government -- Work -- Influence -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From Outbreaks of Cholera to Outbreaks of Panic in Cinemas -- 9. Positivism and the Science of Society: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber -- Durkheim -- Weber -- Key Ideas -- Key Texts -- Timeline: The Modern Era: From Fordism to Fascism -- 10. Behold the Man! The Deceptive Appeal of Power: Hegel, Nietzsche and the Fascists -- Hegel -- Hegel's Influence -- Ecce Homo -- Nietzsche's Influence -- Italian Fascism -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From the Great Depression to the New Economics -- 11. Mao's Little Red Book.

The Red Book -- Culture -- Influence -- Key Ideas -- Key Text -- Timeline: From Atom Bombs to the Triumph of Capitalism -- 12. The End of History? -- The Liberal Record Sheet -- Equality -- Discrimination -- The Human Spirit -- The Communist Experiment -- The Poverty of Historicism -- References and Sources for Further Reading -- General -- Plato -- Machiavelli -- Hobbes -- Locke -- Rousseau -- Adam Smith -- Marx -- Mill -- The Science of Society -- From Absolutism to Fascism -- Maoism -- Some Internet Sources -- Plato -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- Jean- Jacques Rousseau -- Marx and Engels -- Adam Smith -- Science of Society -- J. S. Mill -- Absolutism -- Mao Zedong -- Index -- Absolute, Hegel's notion of the, -- 164 -- 165 -- Abyssinian Exploit -- 176 -- 180 -- Adams, John 77 -- Agathocles, story of 36 -- Aldrin, Buzz 208 -- Alexander the Great 27 -- Alhazen 31 -- alienation -- 125 -- 126 -- 153 -- alphabets, early -- 6 -- 13 -- America -- Declaration of Independence, 141 -- War of Independence, 97 -- anarchy, and Plato 25-6 -- Ancient Greek Society, Nietzsche's view of 171-2 -- Animal Farm, Orwell 67 -- anomie -- 125 -- 153 -- appetites, in Hobbes 51-2 -- Aquinas, Saint Thomas -- 27 -- 41 -- 49 -- Arbenz, President Jacobo 216 -- aristocracy -- 60 -- in Machiavelli's system, 39 -- in Machiavelli's system, 40 -- Aristotle -- 19 -- 26-9 -- 40 -- 41 -- 42 -- 43 -- 49 -- 54 -- 63 -- 164 -- Armstrong, Neil 208 -- Arthasatra, Kautilya 31 -- artist tyrants -- Christianity, 169 -- Elisabeth Nietzsche, 171 -- Germans, 173 -- utilitarians, 168 -- women, 170-1 -- Athens 6-7 -- Augustine, Saint -- 27 -- 50 -- Austen, Jane 129 -- authoritarianism 25 -- automata 52 -- aversions, in Hobbes 51-2 -- Bacon, Sir Francis 84 -- Bakunin 123 -- balance, need for in state -- 20 -- 24 -- Barclay 75-6 -- Bentham, Jeremy -- 131 -- 132 -- 141 -- 145 -- Bible, the.

14 -- Exodus, Book of, 69 -- Job, Book of, 58 -- Bismarck, Otto von -- 144 -- 156 -- 175-6 -- bourgeois -- 118 -- 120 -- 121 -- 125 -- 126 -- 192 -- 197 -- 203 -- 217 -- Brave New World, Huxley 180 -- Buckle, H.T. 111 -- bureaucracy -- bureaucrat-capitalism, 203 -- in Weber, 156 -- Calvin, Jean 92-3 -- Camacérès 113 -- Candide, Voltaire -- 97 -- 103 -- capital -- 108 -- 110 -- 133 -- capitalism -- 121 -- 125 -- 126 -- 155 -- 157 -- 206 -- 214 -- 217 -- 220 -- Castro, Fidel 208 -- Cavalier Parliament 75 -- censorship -- and Maoism, 197 -- in Plato's Republic, 22-3 -- charisma, in Weber 158-9 -- Charles I -- 47-8 -- 66 -- 76 -- Charles V, Emperor 44 -- Chiang Kai Shek -- 179 -- 207 -- children -- Plato's view of, 22 -- social role, 150 -- social role, 196 -- 166 -- 169 -- Church, Catholic -- 27 -- 36 -- 37 -- 49 -- 50 -- relationship with State, 61 -- relationship with State, 66 -- relationship with State, 67 -- relationship with State, 119 -- cities -- rise of, 8 -- rise of, 32 -- citizens -- 40 -- 141 -- Aristotle's view of, 28 -- City States, Greek -- 6 -- 27 -- civic virtue 44 -- civil society -- 74 -- 90 -- 101 -- Rousseau's 'civil man', 91 -- Rousseau's 'civil man', 94 -- Civil War, English -- 49-50 -- 54 -- 75 -- 76 -- class -- 124 -- 125 -- 203 -- class struggle, 117 -- class struggle, 118-19 -- class struggle, 126 -- class struggle, 191-3 -- class struggle, 197 -- class struggle, 206 -- class struggle, 221 -- class struggle, 235.121 -- middle class, 120 -- co-operation, as social fact 149 -- coins, first 13 -- collectivisation 195 -- Common Sense, Paine 77 -- Commonwealth -- 58 -- 60-1 -- communism -- 116 -- 118 -- 162 -- 163 -- 164 -- 205 -- 206 -- 214 -- 217-18 -- 220 -- Communist League 126 -- Communist Manifesto -- 9 -- 115-27 -- 167 -- class conflict and dialectic, 118-19 -- deviant forms of socialism, 124-5.

policy proposals, 122 -- spectre of communism, 118 -- Communist Party -- 24 -- 183-4 -- Compassionate Revolution, Edwards 215 -- Comte, Auguste -- 134 -- 145-6 -- 148 -- 149 -- 221 -- Confessions, Rousseau 83 -- conflict, as origin of society 165-6 -- Confucius -- 5 -- 14 -- 15 -- 184 -- 194 -- Confucianism, 182 -- conjugal society 73 -- consciousness -- class, 124 -- collective, 147 -- collective, 151 -- collective, 164 -- of freedom, Hegelian, 163 -- of freedom, Hegelian, 166 -- of freedom, Hegelian, 167 -- constitution -- American, 8 -- American, 40 -- American, 74 -- American, 97 -- of Ancient Rome, 40-1 -- constitutional forms, Aristotle's 28 -- consumer durables 10 -- Copernicus 47 -- Cours de Philosophie Positive, Comte 145 -- Crick, Bernard 38 -- Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Marx 115 -- Cromwell, Thomas -- 48-9 -- 65 -- 67 -- 70 -- Cultural Revolution -- 184-5 -- 218 -- Dante 33 -- Darwin, Charles -- 117 -- 130 -- 143 -- Das Kapital, Marx 115 -- Defoe, Daniel 81 -- Delphi, Oracle at -- 3 -- 87 -- democracy -- 146 -- 216 -- 220 -- and Aristotle, 28 -- and Mao, 187-8 -- and Mao, 193-4 -- and Mao, 198 -- and Mao, 206 -- and Plato, 25-6 -- in Hobbes' system, 60-1 -- in Machiavelli's system, 39 -- in Machiavelli's system, 40 -- in Machiavelli's system, 43-4 -- democratic dictatorship, Mao's 197-8 -- Democritus -- 15-16 -- 53 -- 117 -- Deng Xioping 183 -- Depression, the Great 10-11 -- Der Wille zur Macht, Nietzsche 172 -- dialectic -- Hegelian, 165 -- Marxist, 127 -- Dialogue, Galileo 50 -- Diamond Sutra, the 31 -- Dicks, Rudolph 144 -- Diggers, the -- 71-2 -- 124 -- Dijon, Academy of 85 -- dikaiosyne 17 -- Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau 82-96 -- Discourse on Science and Arts, Rousseau 84 -- Discourses, Machiavelli 35-45 -- discrimination 212-13 -- division of labour -- 102-3 -- 105 -- 148-9 -- 152.

219 -- Durkheim's study of the, 153 -- Dottrina del facismo 167 -- Durkheim, Emile -- 145 -- 146-54 -- 156 -- 159 -- importance of co-operation, 149 -- simple and complex societies, 152 -- social cohesion, 152 -- social facts, 147 -- social facts, 150 -- social facts, 153 -- social symbols, 151-2 -- suicide, 153 -- Ecce Homo, Nietzsche -- 169-170 -- 173 -- Edison, Thomas 144 -- education -- 143 -- 209 -- 210 -- 211-12 -- and Adam Smith, 104 -- and Adam Smith, 105 -- and choice, 138 -- Confucian, 182 -- in Communist Manifesto, 122 -- in Plato's republic, 22-3 -- in Red Book, 184-6 -- in Red Book, 198 -- in Red Book, 206 -- egalitarianism 182 -- elections 40 -- Emanuel III, King of Italy 179 -- Emile, Rousseau -- 84 -- 95 -- Encyclopaedists -- 84 -- 134 -- End of History, Fukuyama -- 215 -- 219-20 -- Enlightenment philosophy 84 -- Epicurus 117 -- errors of definitions, Hobbes' theory of 53 -- Essay Concerning Civil Government, Locke 68-74 -- Essay on Government, Priestly 131 -- Essex, Earl 68 -- eudaimonia 27 -- evil 89 -- exploitation, in Marxism -- 119 -- 121 -- 123 -- Eye for an Eye, code 13 -- Factory Acts 129 -- family -- 196 -- Aristotle's view of, 28 -- Marx's view of, 119 -- Plato's view of, 22 -- Faraday, James 129 -- fascism -- 11 -- 162-3 -- 164 -- 174-7 -- 181 -- 214 -- as effect of revisionism, 198 -- felicifilic calculus 131 -- Filmer, Sir Robert -- 68 -- 69 -- Ford, Henry 161 -- Fordism 10 -- fortune telling, early role of -- 5 -- 13 -- Franklin, Benjamin -- 97 -- 100 -- free trade -- 81 -- 104 -- 105 -- 119 -- 216 -- and free market, 177 -- and free market, 197 -- and free market, 209 -- and free market, 214 -- and free market, 219 -- and free market, 220 -- freedom -- 44 -- 70 -- 91 -- 94-5 -- 122 -- 125 -- 140 -- 141 -- 193-4 -- 197 -- 206 -- Hegelian freedom, 163 -- Hegelian freedom, 166.

Freud, Sigmund 169.