History of Political Philosophy
10 best books like History of Political Philosophy (Leo Strauss): Democracy in America Volume 2, Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown, The Promise of Politics, German Ideology, On the Citizen, The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology, Political Parties, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
Democracy in America Volume 2
| Author | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| ISBN | 0679728260 |
Written over 150 years ago, Democracy In America is even more important and compelling today than it was then. This past fall, I had the opportunity to teach a Government class for my college. My class studied the second volume of this invaluable classic. It was such a pleasure to study it through a mentor's...
| Author | Leszek Kołakowski |
| ISBN | 0393060543 |
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this highly infuential study of Marxism. Written in exile, this 'prophetic work' presents, according to the Library of Congress, 'the most lucid and comprehensive history of the origins, structure,...
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0805212132 |
In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| Author | Thomas Hobbes |
| ISBN | 0521437806 |
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to have been at least sanctioned...
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN | 0375759182 |
The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill's three seminal and most widely read works: "On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism," A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power...
| Author | Fritz Stern |
| ISBN | 0520026268 |
This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbein, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives...
| Author | Robert Michels |
| ISBN | 0029212502 |
This is now probably one of my favorite books of political theory. It contains some excellent insights into the oligarchical nature of democracies (and of human organization in general) from a psychological and sociological point of view.
The author, Robert Michels, was a member of the Social...
Rawls does an excellent job of explaining the core philosophers of western liberalism along with critiques by Marx and to a lesser extent Rousseau. Even thought I was familiar with each of these thinkers, Rawls helped me gain a firm grasp on each along with an understanding of the development of liberalism....
| Author | Isaiah Berlin |
| ISBN | 0691090262 |
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his...
| Author | Jürgen Habermas |
| ISBN | 0226066665 |
The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act...
| Author | Michael Oakeshott |
| ISBN | 0865970955 |
Rationalism in Politics,
first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics.
Oakeshott criticizes...
| Author | Martin Jay |
| ISBN | 0520204239 |
Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental...
| Author | Carl Schmitt |
| ISBN | 0226738892 |
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.
Focusing...
| Author | Harvey Mansfield |
| ISBN | 1882926439 |
The ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines are reader-friendly introductions to the most important fields of knowledge in the liberal arts. Written by leading scholars for both students and the general public, they will be appreciated by anyone desiring a reliable and informative tour of important...
From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought
| Author | Karl Löwith |
| ISBN | 0231074999 |
همواره از خوندن کتابهایی که از صرف بیان نظریات عبور میکنند و تلاش میکنند از دادوستدهای نظری [و بعضاً عملی] فیلسوفان با هم در یک دوره زمانی سخن به میان آورند...
The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich
| Author | George L. Mosse |
| ISBN | 0865274266 |
In our time two major revolutionary movements - Marxism and National Socialism - have left their mark upon the world. Yet, whereas Marxism is generally recognized as representing an intellectual and ideological tradition extending back for at least a century, National Socialism is not. Rather,...
| Author | Irving Kristol |
| ISBN | 0028740211 |
Irving Kristol and his fellow neoconservatives brought an intellectual heft to conservatism that had not existed before. As a band of disillusioned liberals, their chosen enemy was contemporary liberalism, rather than socialism or 'statism' in the abstract. By the time of Newt Gingrich and the...
| Author | Allan Bloom |
| ISBN | 0671891200 |
Based on the lives and writings of the ancient authors who influenced our modern times. You can get it as a used book from half.com.
Page 30: Bloom sums up his greater need to write on such a theme:
"But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human...
| Author | Michael J. Sandel |
| ISBN | 0521562988 |
مجدداً عن الفلسفة الأخلاقية وكتاب آخر قد تود أن تخفي عنوانه عن أعين الغرباء حتى لا يرمقك أحدهم بنظرة مريبة عندما يراك تقرأه في قطار أو مكان عام. ما يعرفه قارئ...
| Author | Will Kymlicka |
| ISBN | 0198290918 |
The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that...
