The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume One: The Renaissance

9 best books like The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume One: The Renaissance (Quentin Skinner): Politics, Second Treatise of Government, Civilization and Its Discontents, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, Estado y revolución, Sudenmorsian, Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology

Politics

Author	Aristotle
ISBN	0486414248

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...

Second Treatise of Government

Author	John Locke
ISBN	0915144867

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.
In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional...

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author	Sigmund Freud
ISBN	0393301583

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Author	Orlando Figes
ISBN	0312421958

History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations

A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally...

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

Author	Helen Prejean
ISBN	1400067308

In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually...

Estado y revolución

Author

Vladimir Lenin

If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...

Sudenmorsian

Author	Aino Kallas
ISBN	9511219189

Sudenmorsian on Aino Kallaksen (1878 - 1956) keskeisiä teoksia. Se pohjautuu ikivanhalle, kansanuskomuksissa pitkään eläneelle ihmissusiaiheelle: hiidenmaalaisen metsävahdin nuori vaimo Aalo joutuu siinä oudon lumouksen valtaan ja muuttautuu ihmissudeksi, tempautuen irti kodistaan...

Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction

Author

Jens Zimmermann

Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal matters, religious texts, political speeches, emails, and even dinner conversations every day . But how...

The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology

Author	Ernst H. Kantorowicz
ISBN	0691017042

In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies" - the body politic and the body natural -...