Fifty Major Political Thinkers

Routledge's handy series of Key Guides, of which typical titles are Fifty Key Classical Authors and Fifty Modern Thinkers in Education, has now moved on to the political philosophers, though confined to those of the West. Paradoxically Gandhi is included as having been “influenced by the West” (but was he the only such example?). As the authors point out, the choice of subjects in a book of this kind must inevitably be a matter of opinion to some extent, but certainly, those I would have expected to see are here. Some readers may be surprised at the calculation...