Includes bibliographical references.

1. Machiavelli and the Renaissance -- Machiavelli (1469-1527). Letter to Vettori (1513). The Prince (1513-16). Disourses (c. 1517) [selections] -- 2. Hobbes, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution -- Calvin (1509-1564). On Civil Government (1536-60) -- Hobbes (1588-1679). Leviathan (1651) -- 3. John Locke, David Hume, and the Right of Revolution -- Locke (1632-1704). Second Treatise of Government (1689) -- Hume (1711-1776). Of the Original Contract (1748) -- 4. Rousseau, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Revolution -- Rousseau (1712-1778). Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1755). On the Social Contract (1762) -- Smith (1723-1790). Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759-90) [selections] -- Burke (1730-1797). Reflections on the Revolution in France (1789-90) [selections] -- Kant (1724-1804). An Answer to the Question: What Is Engligthenment? (1784) -- 5. J. S. Mill: Feminism and the Pursuit of Happiness -- Bentham (1748-1832). An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1780) [selections] -- Mill (1806-1873). On Liberty (1859). The Subjection of Women (1869) -- 6. Marx and Maxism -- Hevel (1770-1831). Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1821) [selections] -- Marx (1818-1883). On the Jewish Question (1843). Toward a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction (1844). Alienated Labor from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Theses on Feuerbach (1845) -- Marx and Engels (1820-1895). The German Ideology (1845) [selections]. The Communist Manifesto (1848) -- Marx. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) [selections]. Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: Preface (1859). Capital (1867) [selections]. The Civil War in France (1871) [selections]. Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) [selections].