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10 best books like The Portable Machiavelli (Niccolò Machiavelli): Machiavelli in Hell, 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, On the Citizen, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Between Existentialism and Marxism, Legitimation Crisis

Machiavelli in Hell
AuthorSebastian De Grazia
ISBN0679743421
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In this intellectual biography, Sebastian de Grazia presents a new vision of Machiavelli that evokes, with uncanny precision, the great Florentine thinker's presence. After providing an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and the period following...
The Rights of War and Peace
AuthorHugo Grotius
ISBN0865974365
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...
German Ideology
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN0717803015
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...
The Discourses & Other Early Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0521424453
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...
The Political Writings of St. Augustine
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0895267047
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...
Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli
AuthorMaurizio Viroli
ISBN0374528004
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....
On the Citizen
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0521437806
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...
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
AuthorJ.G.A. Pocock
ISBN0691114722
The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which...
Between Existentialism and Marxism
AuthorJean-Paul Sartre
ISBN1844672077
This book presents a full decade of Sartre’s work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays and interviews...
Legitimation Crisis
AuthorJürgen Habermas
ISBN0745606091
In this enormously influential book, Jurgen Habermas examines the deep tensions and crisis tendencies which underlie the development of contemporary Western societies and develops a powerful analysis of the legitimation problems faced by modern states.

Habermas argues that Western...
Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521398371
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...
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness
AuthorWilliam Godwin
ISBN0140400303
I've had this one on the shelf for years, but something tells me that, in this day and age, it's an interesting time to finally crack it open. Here's the opening excerpt from the introduction by editor, Dr. Isaac Kramnick:

"Every political philosophy has its prophet and sacred text. For liberalism...
Means Without End: Notes on Politics
AuthorGiorgio Agamben
ISBN0816630364
An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. A critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, this book builds on the previous work of the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben to address the...
Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers 1973-1980
AuthorBernard Williams
ISBN0521286913
A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been...
Photography For Dummies
AuthorRussell Hart
ISBN0764550659
Catch the Shutterbug! Choose the right film and photofinisher for the best results Find out about your point-and-shoot's secret buttons Master composition -- tips on framing, flash, and lighting Get great action shots of your kids, sporting events, and other activities Capture your vacation on...
History of Political Philosophy
AuthorLeo Strauss
ISBN0226777103
I actually read this entire book from cover-to-cover.

For fun.

Because i felt somebody really ought to.

I'm of the opinion that anyone who wishes to truly understand a subject must diligently study not merely the superficial aspects of that subject, but also the subtle and...
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
ISBN0812970055
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple

In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness,...
The Portable Voltaire
AuthorVoltaire
Satirist, novelist, poet, dramatist, historian, moralist, critic, courtier, and correspondent, champion of reason and fanatical adversary of fanaticism, a darling of kings with the unfortunate habit of turning them into enemies, François Arouet de Voltaire is one of the few writers to have imposed...
Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
AuthorJacques Derrida
ISBN0804749515
Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "État voyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries...
Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorQuentin Skinner
ISBN0192854070
Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it. Offering the first brief introduction to Machiavelli's thought to appear in twenty-five years, Skinner focuses on his three major works, The Prince, Discourses, and The History of Florence. He discusses...
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