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Reflections on the Revolution in France
This abridgement of Reflections on the Revolution in France preserves the dynamism of Edmund Burke’s polemic while excising a number of detail-laden passages that may…
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Canadian Government and Politics – Seventh Edition
Canadian Government and Politics delivers an up-to-date and concise introduction to Canada’s political institutions, processes, and issues. The text integrates theory, history, Census data, and…
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Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love
The election of President Donald Trump, through his campaign of race-baiting, sexual harassment, and blatant disregard for human decency, lowered the moral bar of American…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche
This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century.…
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings
This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the…
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Civil Disobedience
In 1848, Henry David Thoreau twice delivered lectures in Concord, Massachusetts, on “the relationship of the individual to the state.” The essay now known as…
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Utilitarianism – Ed. Bailey
Utilitarianism is a classic work of ethical theory, arguably the most persuasive and comprehensible presentation of this widely influential position. While he didn’t invent utilitarianism,…
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The Apology and Related Dialogues
Socrates, one of the first of the great philosophers, left no written works. What survives of his thought are second-hand descriptions of his teachings and…
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Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams
Silver medalist for the IPPY award for Current Events in 2016! Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of…
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Civilization and Its Discontents
In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud extends and clarifies his analysis of religion; analyzes human unhappiness in contemporary civilization; ratifies the critical importance of the…
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On Perpetual Peace
Kant’s landmark essay “On Perpetual Peace” is as timely, relevant, and inspiring today as when it was first written over 200 years ago. In it…
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The Second Treatise of Civil Government
In this, the second of his Two Treatises of Government, John Locke examines humankind’s transition from its original state of nature to a civil society.…
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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
A contemporary critic described Ignatius Sancho as “what is very uncommon for men of his complexion, A man of letters.” A London shopkeeper, former butler,…
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On Liberty – Ed. Kahn
In this work, Mill reflects on the struggle between liberty and authority and defends the view that “the only purpose for which power can be…
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Ancient Political Thought
This book presents selections from the political and social thought of the ancient West from the early sixth century BCE up to the early years…
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The Morality of War – Second Edition
The first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second…
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Globalization and International Development
This new anthology offers a wide selection of readings addressing the contemporary moral issues that arise from the division between the Global North and South—“the…
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A Letter Concerning Toleration
Locke argued that religious belief ought to be compatible with reason, that no king, prince or magistrate rules legitimately without the consent of the people,…
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The Tragedy of Tragedies
Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and…
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Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
“The art of travelling is only a branch of the art of thinking,” Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in one of her many reviews of works of…
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Three Guineas
In Three Guineas, first published in June, 1938 (as the threat of war between Britain and Nazi Germany was looming larger day by day) Virginia…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: Essential Readings
This volume features a careful selection of major works in political and social philosophy from ancient times through to the present. Every reading has been…
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Readings in Political Philosophy
This anthology surveys important issues in Western political philosophy from Plato to the present day. Its aim is to show both the continuity and the…
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Rights of Man
Advocating equality, meritocracy, and social responsibility in plain language, Thomas Paine galvanized tens of thousands of readers and changed the framework of political discourse with…