Political Books


Spinoza and Politics (Radical Thinkers)Spinoza and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
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?tienne Balibar is well-known for his marxist orientation and his communist studies following...
After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)
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I am very impressed with After Capitalism by Loyola University Professor David Schweickart. ...
Representative Democracy: Principles and GenealogyRepresentative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy
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It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not...
The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Great Books in Philosophy)The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Great Books in Philosophy)
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The other reviewers have made good observations about the text, so it might be helpful to...
Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic DeliberationCivil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
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Must we put passions aside when we deliberate about justice? Can we do so? The dominant views of...


Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Colin Ward was probably not the ideal person to write this little book on anarchism--not, as...
The Creation of the World or Globalization (SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought)The Creation of the World or Globalization (SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought)
Best Price: $15.43
Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.
Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With CommentariesSmall Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries
Best Price: $12.38
This book offers some excellent insights but lacks something that all big picture...
Liberty before LiberalismLiberty before Liberalism
Best Price: $10.00
Slim but packed with first rate scholarship, Skinner mines conceptions of Liberty...
Political Psychology: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology)Political Psychology: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology)
Best Price: $37.44
The chapters in this reader were written by leading scholars in the areas of political science...


Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With CommentariesSmall Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries
Best Price: $12.38
This book offers some excellent insights but lacks something that all big picture...
PluralismPluralism
Best Price: $15.00
This book beautifully explores a worthy approach to pluralism. Connolly seeks to identify faith...
Liberty before LiberalismLiberty before Liberalism
Best Price: $10.00
Slim but packed with first rate scholarship, Skinner mines conceptions of Liberty...
Political Psychology: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology)Political Psychology: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology)
Best Price: $37.44
The chapters in this reader were written by leading scholars in the areas of political science...
Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political SciencePathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science
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The authors identify three major rational choice theorists, Arrow, Downs, and Olson, and argue...

Exodus And RevolutionExodus And Revolution
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Walzer is a Princeton Professor who writes in this book that Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and...
The Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Past, Present, and FutureThe Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Past, Present, and Future
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The new edition of this classic student text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive view of...
Utopia  (Hackett Publishing Co.)Utopia (Hackett Publishing Co.)
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I bought this book because it is a revered "classic". While I am sure More's intent...
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (The Manifesto Series)Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (The Manifesto Series)
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From the final decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, a relatively few social and...
Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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ALL of the "Very Short Introduction" series offered by Oxford University press are...

Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
Best Price: $23.16
Honneth's piece is very good, while Geuss's response is a real highlight. A succinct piece for...
El principe (Clasicos de la literatura series)El principe (Clasicos de la literatura series)
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I like the English version but nothing like pure Spanish to understand the details of this...
What is Political Philosophy? And Other StudiesWhat is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
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For an author who is most often despised, and occasionally revered, one is surprised on how...
Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series)Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series)
Best Price: $22.09
It's almost impossible to understand Marx's specific theoretical and methodological positions...
A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to EndA Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End
Best Price: $27.77
This book was awesome and proved very informative and I would highly recommend it, however the...

Pure War (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Pure War (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
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I think Virilio is one of the century's genuine original thinkers. More specifically, his thesis...
The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in JurisprudenceThe Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence
Best Price: $23.50
Some twenty authors, from Aristotle to Pound are showcased in this relatively small volume....
The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics)The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics)
Best Price: $6.20
If this is a paperback then it is not a 1st edition copy of this book. The first edition is a...
The Essential Dewey, Volume 1: Pragmatism, Education, DemocracyThe Essential Dewey, Volume 1: Pragmatism, Education, Democracy
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I believe that John Dewey was one of the most important philosophers in history, bar none. But...
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American PoliticsThe Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
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Other reviewers have commented on the lack of detail in this book about Wallace's early and...

Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series)Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series)
Best Price: $22.09
It's almost impossible to understand Marx's specific theoretical and methodological positions...
A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to EndA Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End
Best Price: $27.77
This book was awesome and proved very informative and I would highly recommend it, however the...
Pure War (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Pure War (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
Best Price: $8.99
I think Virilio is one of the century's genuine original thinkers. More specifically, his thesis...
The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in JurisprudenceThe Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence
Best Price: $23.50
Some twenty authors, from Aristotle to Pound are showcased in this relatively small volume....
The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics)The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics)
Best Price: $6.20
If this is a paperback then it is not a 1st edition copy of this book. The first edition is a...

The Essential Dewey, Volume 1: Pragmatism, Education, DemocracyThe Essential Dewey, Volume 1: Pragmatism, Education, Democracy
Best Price: $22.71
I believe that John Dewey was one of the most important philosophers in history, bar none. But...
The Ethics of War: Classic and Contemporary ReadingsThe Ethics of War: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Best Price: $43.41
I am a Catholic seminarian who hopes to serve as an Army chaplain so the topics addressed in...
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American PoliticsThe Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Best Price: $15.24
Other reviewers have commented on the lack of detail in this book about Wallace's early and...
National Responsibility and Global Justice (Oxford Political Theory)National Responsibility and Global Justice (Oxford Political Theory)
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Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is...
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
Best Price: $22.45
This book, although quite interesting seems to be written mostly not to explain the subject to...

Political Theory Classic and Contemporary Readings, Vol. 2: Machiavelli to RawlsPolitical Theory Classic and Contemporary Readings, Vol. 2: Machiavelli to Rawls
Best Price: $80.00
Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist DictatorshipsPower and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
Best Price: $15.99
This book covers aspects of Economics that are only too often neglected. These aspects include...
Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
Best Price: $23.16
Honneth's piece is very good, while Geuss's response is a real highlight. A succinct piece for...
El principe (Clasicos de la literatura series)El principe (Clasicos de la literatura series)
Best Price: $2.55
I like the English version but nothing like pure Spanish to understand the details of this...
What is Political Philosophy? And Other StudiesWhat is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies
Best Price: $18.47
For an author who is most often despised, and occasionally revered, one is surprised on how...

Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series)Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series)
Best Price: $22.09
It's almost impossible to understand Marx's specific theoretical and methodological positions...
A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to EndA Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End
Best Price: $27.77
This book was awesome and proved very informative and I would highly recommend it, however the...
Pure War (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)Pure War (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
Best Price: $8.99
I think Virilio is one of the century's genuine original thinkers. More specifically, his thesis...
The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary EditionThe Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition
Best Price: $10.40
In the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Daniel Bell argues that modernism has reached a...
The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in JurisprudenceThe Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence
Best Price: $23.50
Some twenty authors, from Aristotle to Pound are showcased in this relatively small volume....

Gandhi on Non-Violence: Selected Texts from Gandhi's "Non-Violence in Peace and War" (New Directions Paperbook)Gandhi on Non-Violence: Selected Texts from Gandhi's "Non-Violence in Peace and War" (New Directions Paperbook)
Best Price: $7.94
This is an informative, but slim read. Merton has taken some good quality material from...
Political Questions: Political Philosophy from Plato to RawlsPolitical Questions: Political Philosophy from Plato to Rawls
Best Price: $22.20
Organized around a series of enduring and provocative political questions, this edition of...
Religion and CultureReligion and Culture
Best Price: $18.74
As the English speaking world is lacking the definitive collection of Foucault's numerous...
The Jewish WritingsThe Jewish Writings
Best Price: $10.02
Hannah Arendt is known today primarily as the political thinker who provided a fundamental...
On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
Best Price: $15.00
Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this...

Rawls (Routledge Philosophers)Rawls (Routledge Philosophers)
Best Price: $24.60
I admit that I wasn't certain that Samuel Freeman's book on Rawls would be terrific. Two...
A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960sA Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s
Best Price: $29.95
A good overview of the differences between SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), YAK (Young...
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third WorldThe World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World
Best Price: $1.49
It is a well written study of how the KGB tried to manipulate and fight the cold war in the...
  
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