On the Citizen
10 best books like On the Citizen (Thomas Hobbes): Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, De Monarchia (On the Monarchy), The Rights of War and Peace, German Ideology, The Discourses & Other Early Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), The Political Writings of St. Augustine, Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli, Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings, Selected Political Writings
| Author | Michael Walzer |
| ISBN | 0465081894 |
Spheres of Justice represents Walzer’s half of a debate with Robert Nozick. (Nozick’s side of the debate is found in his Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which was also written as a response to Rawls’s Theory of Justice. Nozick defends a libertarian ideal of minimal government and a laissez-faire...
De Monarchia (On the Monarchy)
Se il latino è Grammatica e il volgare è lingua naturale, il De vulgari eloquentia è una Bibbia ancora illibata, immune ai germi del protestantesimo; scritta in latino per i cattedratici comuni mortali, esalta il volgare come lingua del corpo e dello spirito, eleggendola a idioma dominante...
| Author | Hugo Grotius |
| ISBN | 0865974365 |
Since the nineteenth century, Hugo Grotius’s
Rights of War and Peace
has been the classic work in modern international law, laying the foundation for a universal code of law. However, in the seventeeth century and during the Enlightenment, it was considered a major defense of the rights of states...
| 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 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0521424453 |
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume I contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses.The American and French Revolutions were profoundly affected...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0895267047 |
Anyone with a better than cursory knowledge of politics knows that a people's deepest values - their religious values - are what determine whether a society will prosper or fail. And anyone with a more than cursory knowledge of history knows that there was once an entity called Christendom - a political...
| Author | Maurizio Viroli |
| ISBN | 0374528004 |
Este apasionante estudio de Maurizio Viroli, que reivindica al tan vapuleado Nicolás Maquiavelo (1469-1527) como uno de los más inteligentes historiadores y pensadores políticos de todos los tiempos, es el mejor pórtico de la nueva colección Tiempo de Memoria, en su vertiente de historia....
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521398371 |
The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition two important texts illustrating Kant's view of history are included for the first...
| Author | Bernard Mandeville |
| ISBN | 0872203743 |
This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville’s most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert's Introduction...
| Author | Niccolò Machiavelli |
Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0192832662 |
Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. This book presents with nine of his speeches that reflect the development, variety, and drama of his political career. Among them are two speeches from his prosecution of...
The Limits of State Action
| Author | Wilhelm von Humboldt |
| ISBN | 0865971099 |
The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument . . . unfolded in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.
This description by Wilhelm von Humboldt of his purpose in writing
The Limits of State Action
...
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN | 0521379172 |
Mill's tract, published in 1859, remains one of the most important and influential of all writings on "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be exercised by society over the individual" (5). Mill attempts to define those limits as narrowly as possible, and leave as much...
| Author | Joseph de Maistre |
| ISBN | 0521466288 |
A work of powerful style, but like most 19th century conservatism, mainly rethorical. It is no wonder that they lost the cultural battle. It may be my just autism, but systems are the best thing in philosophy and are necessary if one wants to be the backbone of a consistent movement.
That said, de Maistre...
| Author | John Rawls |
| ISBN | 0674004426 |
The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students--and a regeneration of...
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| ISBN | 0226777014 |
The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy...
| Author | Isaiah Berlin |
| ISBN | 0691090998 |
Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were broadcast by the BBC in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years later. They comprise one of Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and on the history...
| Author | Mikhail Bakunin |
| ISBN | 0521369738 |
I'm going to start by being brutally honest: this book is almost no fun at all, but then it isn't supposed to be. It's one of the founding texts of an almost lost political movement, namely anarchism. Anarchism has a bad name now and is usually equated to chaos and social breakdown, but this was never the...
Antisemitism: Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianism
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0156078104 |
Arendt brings out a brief history of anti-Semitism with a special focus on the way it came to be used as a propaganda device by Nazis. There is much in this - like the argument that a wealthy section of society is tolerated by the rest only as long as they serve a function. And to be able to serve a function, power...
