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BIBLIOGRAPHY

No comprehensive history or bibliography of authority
exists. The following have been used in the preparation of
this article.

Sources. T. W. Adorno, et al., The Authoritarian Person-
ality
(New York, 1950). The 'Opus Magus' of Roger Bacon,
ed. John Henry Bridges, trans. Robert Belle Burke (New
York, 1962). Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth,
trans. M. J. Tooley (Oxford, n.d.). Norman O. Brown, Life
against Death
(New York, 1959). Edmund Burke, Reflections
on the Revolution in France
(1790; New York, 1961). Carolo
du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latin-
itatis
(Paris, 1678; 1840-46). Auguste Comte, La philosophie
positive,
ed. Jules Rig (Paris, 1880). Roy J. Deferrari and
M. Inviolata Barry, with Ignatius McGuinness, A Lexicon
of St. Thomas Aquinas
(Baltimore, 1948). Johannes Duns
Scotus, Opera omnia (Hildesheim, 1968). Émile Durkheim,
The Division of Labor in Society, trans. George Simpson
(New York, 1964); idem, L'éducation morale (Paris, 1925).
Robert Filmer, Patriarcha, ed. Peter Laslett (Oxford, 1949).
Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (New York, 1941).
Giovanni Gentile, Genesis and Structure of Society, trans.
H. S. Harris (Urbana, 1960). G. W. F. Hegel, Grundlinien
der Philosophie des Rechts,
4th ed. (Hamburg, 1955); idem,
The Phenomenology of Mind, trans. J. B. Baillie (New York,
1931). Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, new ed. (Munich, 1943).
The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, ed. Norman H. Baynes (New
York, 1942). Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier
1941-1942,
ed. Henry Picker (Stuttgart, 1963). Thomas
Hobbes, Leviathan (1651; New York, 1914). John Locke, Two
Treatises of Government,
ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge,
1964). Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince and the Discourses
(New York, 1950). Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
(New York, 1962); idem, One-Dimensional Man (Boston,
1966). Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of the Peace, ed.
Alan Gewirth (New York, 1967). Robert Michels, Political
Parties: a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies
of Modern Democracies,
trans. Eden and Cedar Paul (New
York, 1959). John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), in Selected
Writings,
ed. Maurice Cowling (New York, 1968). Mittel-
lateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhun-
dert
(Munich, 1967). Benito Mussolini, La dottrina del
Fascismo
(Milan, 1935). Vilfredo Pareto, The Mind and
Society,
new ed. (New York, 1963). Samuel Pufendorf, De
jure naturae et gentium
(1672; Oxford, 1934). David Ries-
man, et al., The Lonely Crowd (Garden City, n.d.). Jean
Jacques Rousseau, The Political Writings, ed. C. E. Vaughan
(New York, 1962). Max Weber, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur
Religionssoziologie
(Tübingen, 1922); idem, Grundriss der
Sozialökonomik; III. Abteilung: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

(Tübingen, 1932).

Commentaries. Authority, ed. Carl J. Friedrich (Cam-
bridge, Mass., 1958). Leon Baudry, Guillaume d'Occam
(Paris, 1949). Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of
Roman Law
(Philadelphia, 1953). Rupert E. Davies, The
Problem of Authority in the Continental Reformers
(London,
1946). Fritz Fürst, Die Bedeutung der Auctoritas im privaten
und öffentlichen Leben der römischen Republik
(Marburg,
1934). Peter Heintz, Anarchismus und Gegenwart (Zurich,
1951). R. Heinze, “Auctoritas,” in Hermes, 60 (1925).
Bertrand de Jouvenel, Power: the Natural History of its
Growth
(London, 1948); idem, Sovereignty: an Inquiry into
the Political Good
(Cambridge, 1957). Harold Laski, Au-
thority in the Modern State
(New Haven, 1919). Karl-
Heinrich Lütcke, “Auctoritas” bei Augustin, mit einer
Einleitung zur römischen Vorgeschichte des Begriffs
(Stutt-
gart, 1968). A. J. MacDonald, Authority and Reason in the
Early Middle Ages
(London, 1933). André Magdelain, Auc-
toritas principis
(Paris, 1947). Theodor Mommsen, Römisches
Staatsrecht
(Leipzig, 1887-88). Barrington Moore, Jr., Soviet
Politics—The Dilemma of Power: The Role of Ideas in Social
Change
(Cambridge, Mass., 1959). Karl F. Morrison, Tradi-
tion and Authority in the Western Church, 300-1140

(Princeton, 1969). Anton von Premerstein, Vom Werden und
Wesen des Prinzipats
(Munich, 1937). Staatslexikon, 6th ed.
(Freiburg, 1957). Studien über Autorität und Familie (Paris,
1936). Brian Tierney, Foundations of the Conciliar Theory
(Cambridge, Mass., 1955). Walter Ullmann, The Growth of
Papal Government in the Middle Ages
(London, 1955); idem;
Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages
(London, 1961). Howard Warrender, The Political Philoso-
phy of Hobbes
(Oxford, 1957). Michael Wilks, The Problem
of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages
(Cambridge, 1963).

LEONARD KRIEGER

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