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On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle w ...Show more
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle w ...Show more
On Augustine: The Two Cities by Alan Ryan
Category: Culture | Series: Liveright Classics
It would be almost impossible to exaggerate the influence of Augustine—the once-hedonistic pagan turned ascetic theologian and defender of the early Christian Church—over all the subsequent history of Europe. Augustine ’s political philosophy is pregnant with arguments that racked not only Christian Eur ...Show more
On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All by Alan Ryan
Category: Culture | Series: Liveright Classics
In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a “social contract” and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Alan Ryan explains how Hobbes created ...Show more
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan
Category: No Category | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic as a model for the modern Western ...Show more
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic as a model for the modern Western ...Show more
On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not enough; the point of politics a ...Show more
On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not enough; the point of politics a ...Show more
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville, who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalog the unique features of the American social contract in his two-volume masterpiece, Democracy in America. Often th ...Show more
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Category: Poetry | Series: Liveright Classics
The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now back with its original publisher, includes a new introduction by Paul Muldoon, showcasing the poem's searing ...Show more
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