Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy

Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Modern Political Philosophy and Prehistoric Anthropology: Some Preliminary Issues 3 The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How a Colonial Prejudice Became an Essetial Premise in the Most Popular Justification of Government 4 John Locke and the Hobbesian Hypothesis: How a Similar Colonial Prejudice Became an Essential Premise in the Most Popular Justification of Private Property Rights 5 The Hobbesian Hypothesis in Eighteenth-Century Political Theory 6 The Hobbesian Hypothesis in Nineteenth-Century Political Theory 7 The Hobbesian Hypothesis in Contempoary Political Theory 8 The Hobbesian Hypothesis in Anthropology 9 Nasty and Brutish? An Empirical Assessment of the Violence Hypothesis 10 Are You Better Off Now Than You Were 12,000 Years Ago? An Empirical Assessment of the Hobbesian Hypothesis 11 Implications References Index