Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL1026: Early Modern Political Thought

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Primary sources:

  • Wootton D. (1996) Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche, Cambridge, MA: Hackett.
  • Wollstonecraft M., Botting, E. H. ed. (2014) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, (New Haven: Yale University Press


Secondary reading:

  • Hampsher-Monk, I. (1992) A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx, Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Ball, T. Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought (Oxford, 1994).
  • Ryan, A. On Politics (Penguin, 2014)