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Profiles of Key Political Thinkers (Edexcel A-Level Politics)
Last updated 2 Jun 2020
Here are short profiles of all the key political thinkers featured in the Edexcel A-Level Politics specification.
Conservatism
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Thomas Hobbes (1588−1679)
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Edmund Burke (1729−1797)
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Michael Oakeshott (1901−1990)
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Ayn Rand (1905−1982)
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Robert Nozick (1938−2002)
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Liberalism
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John Locke (1632−1704)
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)
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John Stuart Mill (1806−73)
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John Rawls (1921−2002)
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Betty Friedan (1921−2006)
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Socialism
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Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
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Beatrice Webb (1858-1943)
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Rosa Luxemburg (1871−1919)
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Anthony Crosland (1918−77)
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Anthony Giddens (1938− )
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Feminism
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908−1986)
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Kate Millett (1934 − 2017)
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Sheila Rowbotham (1943− )
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bell hooks (1952−2021)
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Anarchism
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Max Stirner (1806-1856)
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
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Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
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Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921)
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Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
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Nationalism
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Charles Maurras (1868−1952)
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Giuseppe Mazzini (1805−1872)
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Marcus Garvey (1887−1940)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712−1778)
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Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744−1803)
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Ecologism
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Murray Bookchin (1921-2006)
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Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
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Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
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Carolyn Merchant (1936- )
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E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977)
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Multiculturalism
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Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)
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Charles Taylor (1931- )
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Bhikhu Parekh (1935- )
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Tariq Modood (1952- )
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Will Kymlicka (1962- )
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