A Social History of Western Political Thought keyword-deportations and our alienation to a

and our alienation to a disembodied new world of information and abstraction

dismissed as a refurbished Stalinism in others

for example the impact of the Civil War

Bertolt Brecht

relationships and personality

A Social History of Western Political Thought keyword-deportations and our alienation to aIn this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon,