List of political theorists
A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including
independent scholars. Here the most notable political theorists are categorized by their -ism or school of thought
, with a remaining category ("Other") for those theorists who do not fit into any of the major traditions.
Anarchist
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Murray Bookchin
- Noam Chomsky
- William Godwin
- Emma Goldman
- Peter Kropotkin
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- James C. Scott
- John Zerzan
- Howard Zinn
Classical liberal
- Raymond Aron
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Isaiah Berlin
- Benjamin Franklin
- Francis Fukuyama
- Hugo Grotius
- Friedrich Hayek
- Immanuel Kant
- John Locke
- James Madison
- John Milton
- Montesquieu
- Karl Popper
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Adam Smith
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Conservative
- Edmund Burke
- James Burnham
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Juan Donoso Cortés
- Julius Evola
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Johann Gottfried von Herder
- Russell Kirk
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
- Gustave Le Bon
- Joseph de Maistre
- Harvey Mansfield
- Charles Maurras
- Adam Müller
- Michael Oakeshott
- Wilhelm Röpke
- Carl Schmitt
- Roger Scruton
- Oswald Spengler
- Leo Strauss
- Eric Voegelin
Feminist
- Wendy Brown
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Nancy Fraser
- Betty Friedan
- Chantal Mouffe
- Martha Nussbaum
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Libertarian
- David D. Friedman
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- Rose Wilder Lane
- Robert Nozick
- Ayn Rand
- Murray Rothbard
- Lysander Spooner
- Max Stirner
Marxist
- Theodor Adorno
- Tariq Ali
- Louis Althusser
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Friedrich Engels
- Frantz Fanon
- Antonio Gramsci
- Che Guevara
- Ho Chi Minh
- C.L.R. James
- Kim Il Sung
- Ernesto Laclau
- Vladimir Lenin
- György Lukács
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Herbert Marcuse
- Karl Marx
- Antonio Negri
- Leon Trotsky
Religious
- Muhammad Asad
- Muammar Gaddafi
- René Guénon
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Charles Taylor
- Simone Weil
Social liberal
- Kenneth Arrow
- Jeremy Bentham
- Robert Dahl
- Amy Gutmann
- Will Kymlicka
- John Stuart Mill
- John Rawls
- Michael Walzer
Other
- Gabriel Almond
- Hannah Arendt
- Aristotle
- Chanakya
- Cicero
- Confucius
- Dobrica Ćosić
- Ronald Dworkin
- David Easton
- Erich Fromm
- Jürgen Habermas
- Theodor Herzl
- Thomas Hobbes
- Leszek Kołakowski
- Ali Latifiyan
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Mencius
- Thomas More
- Thomas Paine
- Plato
- Robert D. Putnam
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
See also
- Political science
- Political scientist
- Politics