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On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
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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 Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan
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Category: Philosophy | 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
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Category: Politics | 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
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Category: Politics | 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
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