John Locke
Prentice Hall / Penguin Putnam
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The principal mark of a great book is that it can be read and understood without exploring its specific historical circumstances. Still, ideas have a natural history as well as a dialetical timelessness. We s ... more.

MICHAEL WALZER
Yale University Press
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In this important book, an eminent political theorist examines five 'regimes of toleration' - from multinational empires to immigrant socities- and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of ... more.

Random House, Inc
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* A must-read for all history buffs and informed citizens! Appearing first in New York newspapers in 1787, these documents are still hotly debated, open to controversial interpretation, and an ideological commentary of the critical issues facing a de ... more.

Hannah Arendt
Penguin Classics
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This pioneering analysis of the principles that underlie all revolutions discusses three classic revolutions--the American, the French, and the Russian--and shows how both the theory and practice of revolution have developed. ... more.

Gerhart Niemeyer
St. Augustine's Press, Inc.
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This highly relevant essay by the prominent political philosopher has as its central theme the feature common to all totalitarian ideologies, 'the total critique of society' that social criticism that rejects not ... more.

John Stuart Mill
Oxford University Press
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The four essays here collected for the first time in a single volume, show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today-issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits o ... more.

Aristotle
Oxford University Press
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The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. This work ... more.

Karl Marx
Oxford University Press
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The communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. The Manifesto is a cond ... more.

Henry David Thoreau
Penguin Classics
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Two classic examinations of individuality in relation to nature, society, and government, Walden conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and s ... more.

Plato
Random House, Inc
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The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western culture. Now Robin Waterfield offers a ... more.

Adam Smith
Random House, Inc
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Combining economics, political theory, history, philosophy, and practical programs, Smith assumes that human self-interest is the basic psychological drive behind economics and that a natural order in the universe makes all the indi ... more.

Edmund Burke
Penguin Classics
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Burke's Reflections (1790) predicted with uncanny accuracy the Reign of Terror which lay ahead . . . The book, however, is far more than a supremely eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is without doub ... more.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Penguin Classics
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Through a series of telling commentaries on early Roman history, Machiavelli shows how citizenship can work to maintain freedom, even in the face of civil strife. And yet he remains as clear-eyed a pragmatist as ever. He c ... more.

James Madison
Penguin Classics
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Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted constitution in 1787. ... more.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Penguin Classics
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Machiavelli grew up at a time when the excesses of the church were more under scrutiny than at any time since Constantine. As Savonarola was decrying Florentine governmental excesses in the 1490s, Machiavelli's star was on the rise. T ... more.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Penguin Classics
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In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young Frnech aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weakensses o ... more.

Plato; Robin Waterfield, trans.
Oxford University Press
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The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western culture. This new transl ... more.

Thomas Paine, Mark Philp, Mark Philip
Oxford University Press
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Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution and Rights of Man (1791-2) ... more.

John Locke Mark Goldie ed.
Tuttle Publishing
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John Locke laid the groundwork for modern liberalism. He argues that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberities and properties of their citizens, and that no government has any authority except ... more.

Thomas Paine
Penguin Classics
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Published anonymously in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense became an immediate bestseller, with fifty-six editions printed in that year alone. It was this pamphlet, more than any ... more.