pt. 1. The Greeks. Ancient Greek political thought ; Socrates and Plato ; The guardians of the state and justice ; Aristotle and the science of politics
pt. 2. Romans and Roman Catholics. From polis to cosmopolis ; Christian Cosmopolitanism: St Augustine's City of God ; Christendom and it's law: St Thomas Aquinas
pt. 3. Romans and humanists: the reinvention of sovereignty. The reinvention of sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua ; Machiavelli: The Prince and the virtuous republic
pt. 4. The theory of the social contract. The rise and extraordinary persistence of the theory of the social contract ; Social contract I: The Hobbesian version ; Social contract II: The Lockian version ; Social contract III: The Rousseauist version
pt. 5. Enlightenment and the development of the modern state. The modernity of the modern state ; The politics of enlightenment ; Enlightenment and government through law: Montesquieu ; The American enlightenment: Jefferson, Crèvecour, Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Paine ; The limitations of enlightenment: Hume and Burke
pt. 6. The rise of liberalism. The rise of liberalism ; Liberalism comes of age: Bentham and John Stuart Mill ; Liberalism in maturity and decline: Spencer, Sumner and Green
pt. 7. Reactions to liberalism 1: Hegel
the state and dialectic. Hegel and the hegelian context of Marxism
pt. 8. Reactions to liberalism 2: socialism. Marxism and other socialisms ; Social democracy: Bernstein and Crosland ; The synthesis of Jacobinism and Marxism-Bolshevism: Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
pt. 9. Reactions to liberalism 3: irrationalism and anti-rationalism. The moral exclusiveness of nationalism: Herder ; The elitist critique of democracy: Pareto and Michels ; Liberalism's special enemies: the crowd and its theorists ; The leader and his crowd: Sigmund Freud's Group psychology and the analysis of the ego (1921) ; Fascism, or being revolutionary without being Marxist ; Conservatism: Maurras and Oakeshot ; Thinking about thinking, and the lapse into discourses.