In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, ...
Continue Reading →On the Radical Critique of Political Reason Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today’s Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and ...
Continue Reading →Author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political ...
Continue Reading →This book brings together a comprehensive collection of the writings of one of the greatest philosophers in the Western tradition. Along with five of John ...
Continue Reading → Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not ...
Continue Reading →De Monarchia is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313. With this text, the ...
Continue Reading →The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally “Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy”) is a work ...
Continue Reading → Cicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue ...
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