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  • Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

    by Maurice Joly ...
    Series Book 1 - Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
    This book has traits that can be applied to all governments, but it has one precise goal: to personify one political system in particular that has not varied in its methods for a single day since the unfortunate and, alas, already too faraway date of its inauguration.This is not a lampoon or a pamphlet; the senses of modern people are already too policed to accept violent truths about contemporary ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

    Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny

    by Maurice Joly ...
    Translated by John S. Waggoner ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    The Dialogue in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli is the source of the world's most infamous literary forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. John Waggoner's superb translation of and commentary on Joly's Dialogue-the first faithful translation in English-seeks not only to update the sordid legacy of the Protocols but to redeem Joly's original work for serious study in its own right, ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

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    A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ... Read more

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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

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    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

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  • 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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  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay

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    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts SelectionA timely reissue of acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter’s authoritative and unforgettable essay. First published in 1964 and no less relevant half a century later, The Paranoid Style in American Politics scrutinizes the conditions that gave rise to the extreme right of the 1950s and the 1960s, and presages the ascendancy of the Tea Party movement and, now, Donald Trump ... 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 Mob Mentality

    Enriched edition. The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution

    by Gustave Le Bon, Lance Thomas ...
    In "The Mob Mentality," Gustave Le Bon delves into the psychological processes that govern collective behavior, particularly in crowds. Through meticulous observation and analysis, Le Bon employs a keen literary style that interweaves empirical evidence with philosophical discourse. His exploration of how individual rationality can dissolve in the face of crowd dynamics provides a foundational ... 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

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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

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  • Power

    A New Social Analysis

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell set out to found a 'new ... Read more

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