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List of political theorists

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This is a list of notable political theorists. See the list of political scientists for those who study politics using the scientific method.

A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be academics or independent scholars.

Ancient

  • Aristotle
  • Chanakya
  • Cicero
  • Confucius
  • Mencius
  • Plato
  • Socrates

Medieval

  • al-Farabi
  • Dante Alighieri
  • Averroes
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Ibn Khaldun
  • John of Salisbury
  • Maimonides
  • Muhammad
  • William of Ockham

Renaissance and early modern

  • Jeremy Bentham
  • Edmund Burke
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Hugo Grotius
  • Johann Gottfried von Herder
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Immanuel Kant
  • John Locke
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • James Madison
  • John Milton
  • Thomas More
  • Montesquieu
  • Samuel von Pufendorf
  • Adam Smith
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Late modern

  • Muhammad Asad
  • Hayk Asatryan
  • Mikhail Bakunin
  • Frédéric Bastiat
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Juan Donoso Cortés
  • Émile Durkheim
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Julius Evola
  • René Guénon
  • William Godwin
  • Emma Goldman
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Theodor Herzl
  • Peter Kropotkin
  • Muhammad Iqbal
  • Rose Wilder Lane
  • Gustave Le Bon
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • György Lukács
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Joseph de Maistre
  • Herbert Marcuse
  • Charles Maurras
  • Karl Marx
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Adam Müller
  • Thomas Paine
  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
  • Joseph Schumpeter
  • Oswald Spengler
  • Lysander Spooner
  • Max Stirner
  • Leo Strauss
  • Leon Trotsky
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Max Weber
  • Mary Wollstonecraft

Born in 20th century

  • Theodor Adorno
  • Tariq Ali
  • Louis Althusser
  • Gabriel Almond
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Raymond Aron
  • Kenneth Arrow
  • Isaiah Berlin
  • Murray Bookchin
  • Wendy Brown
  • James Burnham
  • Cornelius Castoriadis
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Dobrica Ćosić
  • Robert Dahl
  • Raya Dunayevskaya
  • Ronald Dworkin
  • David Easton
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Nancy Fraser
  • Michael Freeden
  • Betty Friedan
  • David D. Friedman
  • Erich Fromm
  • Francis Fukuyama
  • Muammar Gaddafi
  • Antonio Gramsci
  • Che Guevara
  • Amy Gutmann
  • Jürgen Habermas
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  • C. L. R. James
  • Ruhollah Khomeini
  • Russell Kirk
  • Leszek Kołakowski
  • Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
  • Will Kymlicka
  • Ernesto Laclau
  • Ali Latifiyan
  • Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Harvey Mansfield
  • Chantal Mouffe
  • Antonio Negri
  • Robert Nozick
  • Martha Nussbaum
  • Michael Oakeshott
  • Karl Popper
  • Robert D. Putnam
  • Sayyid Qutb
  • Ayn Rand
  • John Rawls
  • Michael Walzer
  • Murray Rothbard
  • Wilhelm Röpke
  • Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
  • James C. Scott
  • Carl Schmitt
  • Roger Scruton
  • Charles Taylor
  • Eric Voegelin
  • Simone Weil
  • John Zerzan
  • Howard Zinn

References

References

  1. (Fall 2025). "Medieval Political Philosophy".
  2. Slomp, Gabriella. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  3. Brandt, Reinhard. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  4. Casalini, Brunella. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  5. Barthas, Jérémie. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  6. Leterre, Thierry. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  7. Poggi, Gianfranco. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  8. Tyler, Colin. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  9. Guo, Dingping. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  10. Jaume, Lucien. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
  11. Kaelber, Lutz. (2011). "International Encyclopedia of Political Science". Sage.
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