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Voltaire: Political Writings
This edition of Voltaire’s political writings presents a varied selection of his most interesting and controversial texts, many of which have not previously been translated into …
Seneca: Moral and Political Essays
This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca’s ‘Moral Essays’: On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books …
More: Utopia
This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the …
Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws
Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They …
Stirner: The Ego and its Own
Max Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own is striking and distinctive in both style and content. First published in 1844, Stirner's distinctive and powerful polemic sounded the death-knell …
Thucydides
Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now …
Hobbes: On the Citizen
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and …
Guicciardini: Dialogue on the Government of Florence
This is the first translation into English of Guicciardini’s Dialogue on the Government of Florence. Written in the early 1520s by the author of the famous History of Italy, as …
Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings
Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent …
Sorel: Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant …
Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law
On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673) is Pufendorf’s succinct and condensed presentation of the natural law political theory he developed in his monumental classic On the Law of …
Hobhouse: Liberalism and Other Writings
L. T. Hobhouse’s Liberalism (1911), which has acquired the status of a modern classic, is the most enduring statement of the political principles which animated British liberal …