ABSTRACT

This edition has been revised and extended to include eleven new entries on Berlin, Chomsky, Derrida, Rorty and many others. Key features of this unique guide include:
* 170 entries from 96 contributors, many of whom are leading authorities in their field
* alphabetically arranged entries which include brief biographies, outlines of major ideas and suggestions for further reading
* coverage of Western and Third World political theorists as well as those who have influenced new movements based on the issues of ethnicity, gender and ecology
* a thematically organised index

chapter |4 pages

Rudolf Bahro 1935–

chapter |2 pages

Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986

chapter |22 pages

David Ben Gurion 1886–1973

chapter |14 pages

James Burnham 1907–1987

chapter |100 pages

Benedetto Croce 1866–1952

chapter |28 pages

Ayatollah Rohallah Khomeini 1902–1989

chapter |34 pages

Lu Xun 1881–1936

chapter |6 pages

Robert Michels 1876–1936

chapter |28 pages

Juliet Mitchell 1940–

chapter |4 pages

Manabendra Nath Roy 1887–1954

chapter |24 pages

Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980

chapter |10 pages

Sun Yat-sen 1866–1925

chapter |16 pages

Thorstein Veblen 1857–1929

chapter |4 pages

Raymond Williams 1921–1988

chapter |5 pages

Virginia Woolf 1882–1941