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Limits of Reason in Hobbes's Commonwealth
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 120.00The Limits of Reason in Hobbes's Commonwealth explores Hobbes's attempt to construct a political philosophy of enduring peace on the foundation of the rational individual. Hobbes's rational individual, motivated by self-preservation, obeys the laws of the commonwealth and thus is conceived as the model citizen. Yet Hobbes intimates that... more...
Leviathan
OUP Oxford 1996; US$ 8.99He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human... more...
Rediscovering Institutions
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Rediscovering Institutions
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Liberty, Equality, Democracy
NYU Press 1992; US$ 75.00This volumes explores the whole range of Alexis Tocqueville's ideas, from his political, literary and sociological theories to his concept of history, his religious beliefs, and his philosophical doctrines. Among the topics considered are: Tocqueville's beliefs about foreign policy as applied to American democracy; Tocqueville and Machiavelli... more...
Machiavelli and Republicanism
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 32.00Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the republican tradition. more...
Nietzsche contra Rousseau
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 40.00Nietzsche contra Rousseau takes a serious look at Nietzsche as a political thinker. more...
Offenbarung und Episteme
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 210.00For the first time, these proceedings from an interdisciplinary and international symposium use a broad foundation of sources to examine the first period (1620?1790) in the history of the major European impact of Jakob Böhme, a history that extended well into the 20th century. The contributors reveal the conflicted and contrasting patterns and modalities... more...
Arendt and Adorno
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 24.95Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences,... more...
Humboldt, Wilhelm von: Gesammelte Werke. Band 3
De Gruyter 1843; US$ 168.00Humboldt, Wilhelm von: Gesammelte Werke. Band 3 more...









