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  • Montesquieu's Science of Politics

    Essays on The Spirit of Laws

    by Cecil Courtney, Paul A. Rahe. Michael A. Mosher. Sharon Krause, Rebecca E. Kingston, Catherine Larrere, Iris Cox ...
    Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is one of a handful of classic works of political philosophy deserving a fresh reading every generation. The product of immense erudition, Montesquieu's treatise has captured since its first printing (1748) the imagination of an impressive array of intellectuals including Rousseau, Voltaire, Beccaria, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, Herder, Sieyès, Condorcet, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Short History of European Law

    The Last Two and a Half Millennia

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A Short History of European Law brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and ... Read more

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  • On Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Read more

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  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

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  • On Politics

    A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

    by Alan Ryan ...
    Finally in a one-volume paperback edition, On Politics is one of the most ambitious and hugely readable histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.Praised widely upon hardcover publication, Alan Ryan’s “masterpiece” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) blends history and philosophy to examine three thousand years of political thought. Drawing on three decades of research, Ryan insightfully ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Quintin Hoare ...
    'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Rousseau

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Wokler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Enlightenment Volume 2

    by Peter Gay ...
    Series Book 2 - Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its humane and libertarian vision. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Forum and the Tower

    How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

    by Mary Ann Glendon ...
    As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the meeting ... Read more

    $18.99 USD