Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
10 best books like Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment (David Edmonds): April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici, The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings, Monologion and Proslogion with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm, Taking Rights Seriously: With a New Appendix, a Response to Critics, The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 7: Modern Philosophy, from the Post-Kantean Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, Colonialism / Postcolonialism
One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His disturbing narrative opens up an entire culture, revealing the dark side of Renaissance man and politician Lorenzo de' Medici.
On a Sunday...
| Author | Paul Strathern |
| ISBN | 0553807528 |
Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia, three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0521424461 |
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 II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract.The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau...
| 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 | 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 | Anselm of Canterbury |
| ISBN | 0872202976 |
The Proslogion (also spelled Proslogium; English translation of title: Discourse on the Existence of God), written in 1077-1078, was an attempt by the medieval cleric Anselm to prove beyond contention the existence of god.
Anselm wrote this discourse, not from the perspective of an attempt...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674867114 |
What is law? What is it for? How should judges decide novel cases when the statutes and earlier decisions provide no clear answer? Do judges make up new law in such cases, or is there some higher law in which they discover the correct answer? Must everyone always obey the law? If not, when is a citizen morally...
| Author | Corrado Augias |
| ISBN | 0847829332 |
From Italy's popular author Corrado Augias comes the most intriguing exploration of Rome ever to be published. In the mold of his earlier histories of Paris, New York, and London, Augias moves perceptively through twenty-seven centuries of Roman life, shedding new light on a cast of famous, and infamous,...
| Author | Frederick Charles Copleston |
| ISBN | 0385470444 |
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy...
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
| Author | Ania Loomba |
| ISBN | 0415350646 |
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.
Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines:
key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism
the relationship...
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
| Author | Dani Rodrik |
| ISBN | 0691129517 |
In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local...
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
| Author | Michael Walzer |
| ISBN | 0465037070 |
From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war. He studies a variety of conflicts over the course of history, as well as the testimony...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0679733191 |
...si nos alejamos del estado actual del derecho constitucional estadunidense y tratamos la libertad religiosa como parte de la independencia ética, la posición liberal se vuelve obligatoria. Lo mismo sucede con la igualdad de género en el matrimonio. He hablado en favor de estas opiniones en...
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0895267101 |
For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of values so dear to him that their subsequent drop into catastrophe (in the person of Socrates - Plato) was clearly foreshadowed as though these were events taking place in the theater.
And so in this...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674518365 |
With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Law's Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory of law that will be studied and debated--by...
| Author | Ronald Dworkin |
| ISBN | 0674046714 |
According to the Greek poet Archilochus, the fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this densely argued and most interesting book, Dworkin argues that there is a unity of value relating all aspects of the human condition – the meaning of life, what the well-lived life is, what...
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0872201686 |
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides’ political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently...
Originally delivered as the Einstein lectures at Bern University on 12–14 December 2011.
The text of a draft of the lectures, presented on 8 December 2011 in the Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy at NYU School of Law coordinated by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel, is available...
