The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers

From Gandhi to Guevara and Marcuse to Millet - the names are often familiar, but what of the ideas they represent?

The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers aims to introduce readers to important contemporary thinkers and the ideas they represent. With 159 entries by over 85 contributors, the book offers a unique and comprehensive guide to the major political forces at work during the century. It includes Western and Third World political theorists, and those who have influenced new movements based on the issues of ethnicity, gender and ecology whose ascendancy will continue into the twenty-first century.