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  • Cast A Cold Eye

    de Alan Ryan ...
    Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quiet, picturesque village seems just the place to spend a few months writing, but beneath its placid exterior lurk dark secrets. Why do the locals behave so strangely? What is Father Henning, the enigmatic parish priest, hiding? And what is the meaning of ... Leer más

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  • On Politics

    A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Making of Modern Liberalism

    de Alan Ryan ...
    One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal traditionThe Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one ... Leer más

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  • On Hobbes

    Escaping the War of All Against All

    de Alan Ryan ...
    Series series Liveright Classics
    A guiding light to America’s Founding Fathers, Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy.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 ... Leer más

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  • On Machiavelli

    The Search for Glory

    de Alan Ryan ...
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    An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli.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 world, ... Leer más

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  • On Aristotle

    Saving Politics from Philosophy

    de Alan Ryan ...
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    An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle.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 was born in ... Leer más

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  • On Augustine

    The Two Cities

    de Alan Ryan ...
    Series series Liveright Classics
    No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine.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 ... Leer más

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  • On Tocqueville

    Democracy and America

    de Alan Ryan ...
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    Tocqueville’s gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume.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 ... Leer más

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  • On Marx

    Revolutionary and Utopian

    de Alan Ryan ...
    Series series Liveright Classics
    A lucid introduction to the philosophical complexities and the practical limits of the political thought of Karl Marx.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; ... Leer más

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  • J.S. Mill (Routledge Revivals)

    de Alan Ryan ...
    First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill’s achievements, providing an introductory guide to his most important and best known writings including Autobiography, A System of Logic, Utilitarianism, ... Leer más

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    On Politics

    A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

    de Alan Ryan ...
    Narrado por David Stifel ...

    Completo

    46 hora 4 minutos

    Three decades in the making, one of the most ambitious and comprehensive histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin

    Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of contemporaries, Personal Impressions, in which he sees the point of radically differing personalities, ... Leer más

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