I. Ancient and Medieval

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347 BC)

Aristotle (384–322 BC)

Augustine (354-430)

Aquinas (1225-1274)

II. Modern

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

John Locke (1632-1704)

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)

Montesquieu (1689-1755)

David Hume (1711-1776)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831)

III. 20th Century and Contemporary

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)

Contemporary Political Theory

IV. Social Thought and Methodology

Notes from Video Courses (Yale Open Courses: Foundations of Modern Social Theory with Iván Szelényi)

Max Weber (1864-1920)

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)

A Few Notes on Methodology