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The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America
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John Ralston Saul · 640 pages
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is a sweeping and provocative exploration of nothing less than the political, economic, social, and cultural origins of Western society. With great daring and originality, John Ralston Saul dissects the contradictions, delusions, and illusions that have brought the world to the brink of confusion and crisis, and shatters the myths surroun
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder · 128 pages
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism a
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio Agamben · 199 pages
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Michel Foucault · 310 pages
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama · 418 pages
Observing totalitarian and authoritarian governments falling around the world, Fukuyama develops an hypothesis that the end state of all this change will be liberal democracy everywhere (The End of History), and considers how people will react (The Last Man).
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
Peter Marshall · 778 pages
Navigating the broad "river of anarchy," from Taoism to Situationism, from Ranters to Punk rockers, from individualists to communists, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, Demanding the Impossible is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. It explores the key anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality, authority and power, and investig
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
Michael Walzer · 361 pages
"First published in 1977 and now brought up to the present with a new preface and postscript, this classic work by political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues that arise before, during, and after the wars we fight. Reaching from the Athenian attack on Melos, to the Mai Lai massacre, to Afghanistan and beyond, Walzer mines historical accounts and the testimony of participants, de
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
Isaiah Berlin · 290 pages
Fascism and Ideology
Salvatore Garau · 313 pages
This book develops a number of new conceptual tools to tackle some of the most hotly debated issues concerning the nature of fascism, using three profoundly different national contexts in the inter-war years as case studies: Italy, Britain and Norway. It explores how fascist ideology was the result of a sustained struggle between competing internal factions, which created a precarious, but also hi
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Russell Kirk · 492 pages
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 490 pages
The Marx-Engels Reader
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 686 pages
This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke, L.G. Mitchell · 338 pages
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, written and published during 1789-90, has become a classic of English conservatism, and that is the reason it is still being read nearly two hundred years later. John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century. - Publisher.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography
Christopher Hitchens · 158 pages
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable rights. Since its publication, Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed,
The Prince and Other Writings
Niccolo Machiavelli · 272 pages
If The War Goes On: Reflections On War And Politics
Hermann Hesse · 160 pages
A collection of essays from Hermann Hesse concerning World War II, his personal anguish and his antagonism to racism, nationalism and war.
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
Leon Trotsky · 46 pages
"The historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organisations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery." "The advanced workers must know that they will have to fight and win a struggle to the death." Writing in the heat of struggle against the rising fascist movement i
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt · 432 pages
Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age onto a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. Tony Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments.--[book jacket]
De la démocratie en Amérique
Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont · 436 pages
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit · 192 pages
Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of "the East" in the Western colonial mind. But "the West" is the more dangerous mirage of our own time, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit argue, and the idea of "the West" in the minds of its self-proclaimed enemies remains largely unexamined and woefully misunderstood. Occid
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx, Daniel de Leon · 131 pages