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1. Quentin Skinner

   Author of Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes

2. J. G. A. Pocock

   Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History, Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Ideas in Cont

3. Raymond Geuss

   Author of The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy), History and Illusion in Politics, Public Goods, Private Goods (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy)

4. Richard Tuck

   Author of Hobbes, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development, Philosophy and Government 1572-1651 (Ideas in Context)

5. Perry Anderson

   Author of Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from antiquity to feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism

6. Peter Singer

   Author of Marx: A Very Short Introduction, Hegel: A Very Short Introduction

7. A. J. Ayer

   Author of Hume

8. Roger Scruton

   Author of Kant: A Very Short Introduction, Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

9. Peter Laslett

   Author of Philosophy, politics, and society,: Third series; a collection, Philosophy, Politics and Society

10. Julia Annas

    Author of Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Plato: A Very Short Introduction

11. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Political Romanticism

12. Bernard Williams

    Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry, Moral Luck

13. Tom Sorell

    Author of Descartes: A Very Short Introduction, The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

14. David Miller

    Author of Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (Blackwell Reference)

15. C.B. Macpherson

    Author of The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford Paperbacks), Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval, Burke

16. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of Four Essays on Liberty, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Personal Impressions

17. Hannah Arendt

    Author of On Revolution, Between Past and Future, On Violence

18. Robert Wokler

    Author of Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

19. Jonathan Barnes

    Author of Aristotle

20. Peter France

    Author of Diderot (Past Masters)