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History of Political Thought
Canonical texts, interpretations, and intellectual history. Browse each shelf photograph alongside its author and title list.
1History of Political Thought

- · Florentine Histories
- · The Histories
- · City of God
- · The Republic of Plato
- · The Prince (Bilingual Edition, Musa, ed.)
- · The Prince and the Discourses (Lerner, ed.)
- · Holy Bible (Revised Standard Version)
- · Discourses on Livy (Mansfield and Tarcov, eds.)
- · The Prince (Mansfield, ed.)
- · The Prince: Text and Commentary (Barricelli, ed.)
- · The Discourses (Crick, Walker, and Richardson, eds.)
- · Three Discourses
- · The Prince (Adams, ed.)
- · The Prince (Ricci and Vincent, trans.)
- · The Basic Works of Aristotle
- · Selected Political Writings (Wooton, ed.)
- · The Prince (Bull, trans.)
- · The Prince (Skinner and Price, eds.)
- · The Prince (Ricci and Vincent, trans.)
- · Reflections on the Revolution in France
- · The First and Second Discourses (Masters and Masters, ed)
2History of Political Thought

- · Areopagitica
- · Theological-Political Treatise
- · Hobbes
- · Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
- · Selections from Clarendon
- · Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence
- · Essays
- · The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis
- · Essays
- · On the Citizen
- · Man and Citizen
- · Leviathan (Oakeshott, ed.)
- · Maxims and Reflections
- · Selected Writings
- · Selections from Greek Historians
- · Politica
- · The Praise of Folly
- · Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton
- · A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- · Utopia
- · The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- · Selections from Clarendon
- · Leviathan (McPherson, ed.)
- · The Rights of War and Peace
3History of Political Thought

- · The Education of a Christian Prince
- · The Dutch Revolt
- · Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 5: The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
- · The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendorf
- · The History of Italy
- · Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 3: Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Second Discourse), Polemics, and Political Economy
- · Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 4
- · The Prince and the Discourses
- · Anti-Machiavel
- · Political Writings
- · An Essay on the History of Civil Society
- · Political Writings
- · In Defense of Raymond Sebond
- · Political Writings
- · Political Writings
- · Defence of the Treaty of Utrecht
- · The Commonwealth of Oceana
- · Réflexions sur la monarchie universelle en Europe
- · Political Essays
- · A Treatise of Human Nature · 2nd ed.; L. A. Selby-Bigge, ed., revised by P. H. Nidditch
- · Essay on Man and Other Poems
- · On the Natural State of Men
- · Edmund Burke on the American Revolution (Elliott R. Barkan, ed.)
- · The Philosophy of Kant
- · Francis Bacon
- · The Government of Poland
- · Political Works
- · Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
4History of Political Thought

- · Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
- · De l'Esprit de Conquête et de l'Usurpation
- · A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes and States of Christendome (Henry Hunt, ed.)
- · De l'Esprit
- · The Confessions
- · An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- · The Thomas Paine Reader
- · On History
- · Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary
- · Reflections on the Revolution in France
- · Candide and Related Texts
- · The Spirit of the Laws
- · My Thoughts
- · Basic Political Writings
- · The Federal Idea, Vol. I
- · Persian Letters
- · Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline
- · Political Writings
- · Leviathan
- · Two Treatises of Government
5History of Political Thought

- · Selected Writings
- · From Max Weber · Oxford
- · Adam Smith's Moral and Political Philosophy · Liberty Fund
- · A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies · Penguin
- · Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings
- · Essays in the Liberal Interpretation of History · Chicago
- · Political Writings · Cambridge
- · Political Writings · Cambridge
- · Rousseau's Political Writings · Norton
- · Further Reflections on the Revolution in France · Liberty Fund
- · Major Writings of Germaine de Staël · Columbia
- · Democracy in America, Vol. I · Vintage
- · The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville · Meridian
- · Democracy in America · Norton
- · The Communist Manifesto (Samuel Beer, ed.)
- · The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- · Democracy Without Nations? The Fate of Self-Government in Europe · Everyman's
- · On Liberty · Gateway
- · Mill (Alan Ryan, ed.) · Hackett
- · The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- · On Liberty · Hackett
- · Kant's Political Writings · Cambridge
- · The Limits of State Action · Liberty Fund
- · Rationalism in Politics
- · On Human Conduct
6History of Political Thought

- · Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain
(1993)
First publication of the work
- · What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
(2019)
First publication of the work
Source: What Was Liberalism? — Hachette
- · Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
(1979)
- · The Soviet Impact on the Western World
(1946)
First publication of the work
Source: The Soviet Impact on the Western World by Edward Hallet Carr | Open Library
- · Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
(1992)
First publication of the work
Source: College Quarterly - Review - Voltaire's Bastards: the Dictatorship of Reason in the West
- · The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy
(2006)
First publication of the work
Source: The Truth about Leo Strauss — University of Chicago Press
- · The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
(2002)
First publication of the work
Source: The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays | JSTOR
- · Two Cheers for Democracy
(1951)
First publication of the work
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy - Edward Morgan Forster - Google Books
- · Friedrich Nietzsche
(1908; ed. 1993)
First publication of the work
Originally published as The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908); the pictured Transaction edition uses the shorter title Friedrich Nietzsche.
Source: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - H. L. Mencken - Google Books
- · Progress and Disillusion: The Dialectics of Modern Society
(1968)
First English publication; French original Les Désillusions du progrès appeared in 1969.
- · Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790
(2011)
First publication of the work
Source: Democratic enlightenment by Jonathan I. Israel | Open Library
- · The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
(1977)
First publication of the work
Source: The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph | JSTOR
- · Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics
(2011)
First publication of the work
Source: Herbert Butterfield — Regnery
- · Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty
(2002)
First publication of the work
- · Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
(2021)
First publication of the work
- · What Is Populism?
(2016)
First publication of the work
Source: What Is Populism? – Penn Press
- · The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
(2013)
First publication of the work
Source: The Enlightenment — UCLA
- · The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
(2025)
First publication of the work
- · Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development
(1979)
First publication of the work
Source: Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development - Richard Tuck - Google Books
- · Hobbes and Republican Liberty
(2008)
First publication of the work
- · The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
(2013)
First publication of the work
Source: The Great Debate — Hachette
- · History and the Enlightenment
(2010)
First publication of the work
Source: History and the Enlightenment — Yale University Press
- · Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection
(1990)
First English translation
French original Mémoires appeared in 1983.
Source: Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection - Raymond Aron - Google Books
- · Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
(2015)
First publication of the work
Source: Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke | JSTOR
- · The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations
(2023)
First publication of the work
Source: The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations | Oxford Academic
- · Aspects of Hobbes
(2002)
First publication of the work
- · The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History
(2017)
First publication of the work
7History of Political Thought

- · Conservatism: A Rediscovery
(2022)
First publication of the work
- · The Human Condition
(1958)
First publication of the work
Source: The Human Condition: Second Edition - Hannah Arendt - Google Books
- · Two Faces of Liberalism
(2000)
First publication of the work
- · A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right
(2021)
First publication of the work
The later paperback uses the subtitle Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right.
- · The Jewish Century
(2004)
First publication of the work
Source: The Jewish Century | JSTOR
- · Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
(2023)
First publication of the work
Source: Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times | Samuel Moyn
- · The New Science of Giambattista Vico
(1725; ed. 1744)
First publication of the work
First Italian publication 1725; third Italian edition 1744. Bergin and Fisch first translated it in 1948, with a revised translation in 1968. The printing of the pictured copy is not established.
Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico - Giambattista Vico - Google Books
- · The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity
(2015)
First publication of the work
Source: "The Shock of History. Religion, Memory, Identity " | www.dominiquevenner.fr
- · Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought
(1960; ed. 2004)
First publication of the work
The pictured Princeton edition is the expanded edition; the original work appeared in 1960.
- · Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
(2018)
First publication of the work
Source: Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World | Yale News
- · Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
(2016)
First publication of the work
Source: Germaine de Staël. A political portrait – Société des études Staëliennes
- · An Essay on the Theory of Enlightened Despotism
- · Josiah Tucker: A Selection from His Economic and Political Writings
(1931)
Title, editor, and publication year supplied by the collection owner
- · The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
(2014)
First publication of the work
- · Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
(2016)
First publication of the work
- · Political Violence and Civil Disobedience
- · Liberty Before Liberalism
(1998)
First publication of the work
Source: Liberty Before Liberalism - Quentin Skinner - Google Books
- · The Virtues of Liberalism
(1998)
First publication of the work
- · Machiavelli and Empire
(2004)
First publication of the work
Source: Machiavelli and Empire
- · Liberalism
(1911)
First publication of the work
Source: Liberalism — Project Gutenberg
- · Liberalism
(1986)
First publication of the work
First edition 1986; second edition 1995. The photograph does not establish which edition this copy contains.
- · The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered: The Contested Legacy of Louis Hartz
(2010)
First publication of the work
Source: The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered — University Press of Kansas
- · Essays and Aphorisms
(1970)
First publication of this selected English collection
Selected and translated by R. J. Hollingdale from Parerga and Paralipomena (1851).
Source: Essays and aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer | Open Library
- · Confessions
(c. 397–400)
Approximate composition dates of the ancient work
The date of the pictured Oxford translation is not established.
Source: Confessiones — BiblIndex
- · Stalin's Genocides
(2010)
First publication of the work
Source: Stalin's Genocides | JSTOR
- · Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History
(1949)
First publication of the work
- · The Political Classics: Hamilton to Mill
(1993)
First publication of the work
Source: Details for: Political classics : Hamilton to Mill › LBSNAA catalog
- · The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
(2009)
First publication of the work
- · Ordinary Vices
(1984)
First publication of the work
- · The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution
(1955)
First publication of the work
- · The Liberal Mind
(1963)
First publication of the work
Source: The Liberal Mind - Kenneth R. Minogue - Google Books
- · The Portable Nietzsche
(1954)
First publication of the Walter Kaufmann anthology and translations
Source: The Portable Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche - Google Books
- · The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
(2024)
First English publication
German original Moral: Die Erfindung von Gut und Böse appeared in 2023.
Source: The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality - Hanno Sauer - Google Books
- · The End of Liberalism
(2023)
Publication year confirmed by the collection owner
- · Basic Writings of Nietzsche
(1968)
First publication of the Walter Kaufmann English anthology
8History of Political Thought

- · Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments
(2011)
First publication of the work
Source: Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments - Google Books
- · The Prince
(1532)
First publication of the work
First printed publication 1532; written in 1513. The pictured edition date is not established.
Source: The Prince — New West Press
- · Pensées and The Provincial Letters
(1656–1657; 1669)
Original publication dates of the two works
The Provincial Letters appeared in 1656–1657; Pensées was first published posthumously in 1669. This Modern Library combination was first issued in 1941; the pictured printing is not established.
Source: Editions of Pensées and the Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal
- · The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire
(2006)
First publication of the work
- · The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century
(1994)
First publication of the work
Source: The Americas in the Spanish World Order — Penn Press
- · Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
(2018)
First publication of the work
- · Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human
(2021)
First publication of the work
- · The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism
(1996)
First publication of the work
Source: The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism — Yale University Press
- · Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics
(2004)
First publication of the work
- · Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
(2017)
First publication of the work
- · Enlightenment Against Empire
(2003)
First publication of the work
- · No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
(2009)
First publication of the work
- · Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism
(1984)
First publication of the work
Source: Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism
- · The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I
(1776)
First publication of Volume I
The original six-volume work appeared in 1776–1789. The publication year of this Penguin printing is not established.
Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by GIBBON, Edward | Search for Rare Books | ABAA
- · The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche
(1986; ed. 1992)
First publication of the work
Originally published by Princeton in 1986; the pictured University of California Press edition appeared in 1992.
- · Citizen Machiavelli
(1983)
First publication of the work
Source: Citizen Machiavelli - 1st Edition - Mark Hulliung - Routledge Book
- · Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
(1993)
First English translation
Italian collection Thomas Hobbes appeared in 1989.
Source: Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition - Norberto Bobbio - Google Books
9History of Political Thought

- · Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
(1950)
First publication of the work
- · Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World
(1993)
First publication of the work
Source: Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World - Kanan Makiya - Google Books
- · Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever
(2004)
First publication of the work
Source: WHY LINCOLN MATTERS: Today More Than Ever by Mario Matthew Cuomo
- · Simulating Sovereignty: Intervetnion, the State and Synbolic Exchange
(1995)
First publication of the work
Source: Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange - Cynthia Weber - Google Books
- · Considerations on Representative Government
(1861)
First publication of the work
- · A History of Political Theory
(1937)
First publication of the work
First edition 1937. The photograph does not establish the edition of this copy.
Source: A HISTORY OF POLITICAL THEORY
- · An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
(1814)
First publication of the work
- · Ethnic Groups in Conflict
(1985)
First publication of the work
First edition 1985; second edition 2000. The pictured edition is not established.
Source: Ethnic groups in conflict /
- · War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
(2002)
First publication of the work
- · Liberty and Justice, Volume II: The Modern Constitution—American Constitutional Development Since 1865
(1965)
Publication of this revised two-volume edition
Volume II of the revised 1965 edition.
Source: Liberty and Justice — Constitutional Commentary review
- · Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
(2004)
First publication of the work
- · William James: His Life and Thought
(1986)
First publication of the work
The pictured spine identifies Myers as the author; this is Gerald E. Myers’s biography, not a collection of James’s writings.
- · Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
(1941)
First publication of the work
- · American Foreign Policy: A History Since 1900
(1977; ed. 1983)
First publication of the work
The work first appeared in 1977. The pictured Volume II, A History Since 1900, matches the 1983 second edition.
Source: American Foreign Policy, second edition — Open Library
- · Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order
(2003)
First publication of the work
Source: CiNii Books - Imperial America : the Bush assault on the world order
- · The Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton
(1957)
First publication of the work
10History of Political Thought

- · Beyond Containment
(1983)
First publication of the work
Source: Beyond Containment (1983) by Aaron Wildavsky - The Unz Review
- · Union of Words
(1996)
First publication of the work
Bibliographic records identify the author as Wayne Fields; the former catalog attribution was incorrect.
- · U.S. Foreign Policy and the United Nations System
(1996)
First publication of the work
Source: U.S. Foreign Policy and the United Nations System - Charles William Maynes - Google Books
- · Law and Letters in American Culture
(1984)
First publication of the work
Source: Law and letters in American culture / | Library Search
- · Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law
(2000)
First publication of the work
Source: Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law: 9781932236170 - AbeBooks
- · Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America
(2003)
First publication of the work
Source: Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America - Washingtonian
- · Republics at War, 1776-1840: Revolutions, Conflicts, and Geopolitics in Europe and the Atlantic World
(2013)
First publication of the work
- · Interpretation and Social Criticism
(1987)
First publication of the work
- · Secession, State, & Liberty
(1998)
First publication of the work
Source: Secession, State, and Liberty
- · Morality and the Law
(1971)
First publication of the work
- · Toward World Sovereignty
(2002)
First publication of the work
Source: Toward World Sovereignty — Bloomsbury / University Press of America
- · America and the Muslim Middle East: Memos to a President
(1998)
First publication of the work
Source: America and the Muslim Middle East: Memos to a President: 9780898432398 - AbeBooks
- · Toward World Sovereignty
(Year to confirm)
Identification pending
The photograph shows a book attributed to Smith, but no reliable publication record matching this attribution and title was found. A title-page check is needed; the Taylor book listed separately is not evidence for this entry.
- · Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
(1981)
First publication of the work
Source: Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
- · America and Europe: A Partnership for a New Era
(1997)
First publication of the work
Source: CiNii Books - America and Europe : a partnership for a new era
- · The Encyclopedia of Modern War
(1977)
First publication of the work
Source: Encyclopedia of Modern War 1st edition | 9780367712983, 9781000370706 | VitalSource
- · Henry Adams: The Major Phase
(1964)
First publication of the work
Source: Henry Adams - The Major Phase
- · Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty
(2009)
First publication of the work
- · Benjamin Constant
(1949)
First publication of the work
Source: BENJAMIN CONSTANT
- · The Emergence of Spanish America
- · The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
(1957)
First publication of the work
Source: The king's two bodies : a study in mediaeval political theology | WorldCat.org
11History of Political Thought

- · The Portable Enlightenment Reader
(1995)
First publication of the work
- · Every War Must End
(1971)
First publication of the work
- · A Collection of Essays
(1953; ed. 1954)
First publication of the work
The collection is cataloged with a 1953 copyright; the Doubleday Anchor edition shown was published in 1954.
- · The Varieties of History From Voltaire to the Present
(1956)
First publication of the work
Source: The varieties of history, from Voltaire to the present | WorldCat.org
- · Return to Reason
(2001)
First publication of the work
Source: Return to Reason - Toulmin, Stephen: 9780674004955 - AbeBooks
- · How to Write a BA Thesis
(2005)
First publication of the work
Source: How to Write a BA Thesis
- · The Poverty of Historicism
(1957)
First publication as a standalone book
Originally published serially in Economica, 1944–1945.
Source: The Poverty of Historicism
- · The Whig Interpretation of History
(1931)
First publication of the work
Source: The Whig Interpretation of History — Historical Journal
- · The Counter-Revolution of Science
(1952)
First publication of the work
- · Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory
(1994)
First publication of the work
- · The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and its Implications for the Study of World Politics
(2011)
First publication of the work
Source: The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations — Review of Politics
- · Mis-Measuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add UP
(2010)
First publication of the work
- · Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science
(2005)
First publication of the work
Source: Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science
- · The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
(1973)
First publication of the work
Source: THE COMING OF POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY | Daniel Bell | First printing
- · The Philosophy of the Social Sciences
(2007)
First publication of the work
Source: The Philosophy of the Social Sciences An | BiggerBooks
- · The History and Philosophy of Social Science
(1991)
First publication of the work
- · Measuring America
(2002)
First publication of the work
- · On History and Other Essays
(1983; ed. 1999)
First publication of the work
First published by Basil Blackwell in 1983; the pictured Liberty Fund edition, edited by Timothy Fuller, appeared in 1999.
Source: On History and Other Essays - Michael Oakeshott
Liberty Fund edition (1999) - · The Philosophy of Social Explanation
(1973)
First publication of the work
Source: The philosophy of social explanation | CiNii Research
- · Philosophical Analysis and History
(1966)
First publication of the work
Source: Philosophical Analysis And History | William H. DRAY
- · The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy
(1958)
First publication of the work
Source: The idea of a social science and its relation to philosophy | WorldCat.org
- · The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1 Plato
(1945)
First publication of the work
Source: The Open Society and its Enemies: The Spell of Plato - 1st Edition - K
- · The Philosophy of the Social Sciences
(1970)
First publication of the work
Source: The philosophy of the social sciences | WorldCat.org
- · The Philosophy of Social Science
(1994)
First publication of the work
Source: The Philosophy of Social Science
- · The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945
(1991)
First publication of the work
Source: The tragedy of Cambodian history : politics, war, and revolution since 1945 | WorldCat.org
- · Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War
(1994)
First publication of the work
- · A Diplomatic History of the American People
(1940; ed. 1964)
First publication of the work
First edition 1940; the pictured spine identifies the seventh edition, published in 1964.
Source: Diplomatic History of the American People | International Affairs | Oxford Academic
12History of Political Thought

- · Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence
- · The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism
- · The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
- · Dictionary of the History of Ideas (5 vols.)
- · The Encyclopedia of Philosphy (8 books in 4 vols.)
13History of Political Thought

- · Nietzsche's Enlightenment
- · The Future of the Jews
- · Moral and Political Essays
- · Machiavelli's Virtue
- · The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
- · The Wisdom of Israel: An Anthology
- · Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century
- · The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Revpublican Tradition
- · Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
- · Montesquieu and the Old Regime
- · Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture in the Close of the Modern Age
- · The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century
- · The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Second Edition)
- · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. II
- · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. III
- · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. I
- · The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History
14History of Political Thought

- · Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
- · The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
- · Main Currents in Sociological Thought, I: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville
- · The Portable Nietzsche
- · The Will to Power
- · Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society
- · Law, Liberty and Morality
- · The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx
- · Montesquieu
- · The Roads to Modernity
- · Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burchhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville
- · Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought
- · The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
- · The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
- · Machiavelli and Guicciardini
- · Milton's God
- · Shakespeare's Politics
- · Constitutionalism Ancient and Modern
- · The Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation
- · Mill on Liberty: A Defence
- · A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
- · The Conservative Tradition in American Thought
- · Coercion, Capital, and European States
- · The Idea of a Patriot King
15History of Political Thought

- · The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
- · Three Revolutions: The French and American Revolutions Compared. Reflections on the Russian Revolution by Stefan T. Possony
- · Citizenship in the Western Tradition: Plato to Rousseau
- · Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
- · The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787
- · League of the Iroquois
- · American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804
- · The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington
- · The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
- · Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
16History of Political Thought

- · Thoughts on Machiavelli
- · Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
- · Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
- · Machiavelli in Hell
- · Isaiah Berlin
- · The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
- · Thoughts on Machiavelli
- · Niccolo's Smile: A Biography
- · The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition
- · Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century
- · The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
- · Conceptual Change and the Constitution
- · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. V
- · Barbarism and Religion, Vol. IV
- · Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776
- · Edward Gibbon and Empire
- · Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon
17History of Political Thought

- · The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke
- · A Primer of Freudian Psychology
- · Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind
- · Rousseau and ther Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution
- · A Passion for Democracy
- · Gibbon
- · Politics, Language, and Tine: Essays on Political Thought and History
- · Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Reolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
- · Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfore of Humanity With Unreason
- · Main Currents in Sociological Thought, II: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber
- · The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2
- · A Theory of Justice
- · Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750
- · Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man, 1670-1752
- · Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
18History of Political Thought

- · The Structure of Science: Provlems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation
- · The Argumentative Indian
- · The Uses of Enchantment
- · American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century
- · Kant
- · The Ancients and the Moderns
- · The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics
- · The Moral Sense
- · What Is Enlightenment?
- · Liberalism
- · Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government
- · In Defence of Politics
- · John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
- · We Are All Multiculturalists Now
- · Kant
- · Justice
- · The Enlightenment in America
- · The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
- · The Principles of Political Thought: Social Foundations of the Democratic State
19History of Political Thought

- · Kant's Politics in Context
- · In Praise of Forgetting
- · History of the Council of Trent
- · The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics
- · The Concept of Law
- · The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism
- · Voltaire
- · Three Rival Visions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Geneology, and Tradition
- · Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
- · Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, rev. ed
- · Why I Am Not a Christian
- · Political Dialogues
- · Two Cultures? The Significance of C.P. Snow
- · Development as Freedom
- · Law, Legislation and Liberty
- · A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy fron the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
- · Women in Western Political Thought
- · Twilight of Authority
- · The Rhetoric of Reaction
- · Straw Dogs
- · The Political Imagination in Literature
20History of Political Thought

- · On History
- · Twilight of the West
- · Europe Through a Glass Darkly (Spring 1994)
- · Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction
- · The Conservative Mind
- · The New Leviathan: Man, Society, Civilization, and Barbarism
- · Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals
- · Philosophers and Pamphleteers: Political Theorists of the Enlightenment
- · On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
- · In Defence of Politics
- · The History of European Liberalism
- · Political Philosophers of the Twentieth Century
- · The Morality of Consent
- · The Origins of Political Order From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- · Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism
- · Freedom: A New Analysis
- · Political Ideas (European Thinkers of last hundred years)
- · The Philosophy of History
- · Property
- · Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture
- · The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honor of Isaiah Berlin
- · The End of Liberalism: Ideology, Policy, and the Crisis of Public Authority
- · Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power
21History of Political Thought

- · Sex and Reason
- · Democracy Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- · Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty
- · Intellectuals
- · The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine
- · The Crooked Timber of Humanity
- · Classics of Modern Political Theory
- · An Essay on Freedom
- · Why Peace
- · Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
- · Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
- · The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
- · Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations
- · Conservatism
- · Hayek's Conservative Liberalism
- · The Case for Modern Man
- · Reconsidering Tocqueville's Democracy in America
- · Rousseau For Our Time (Summer 1978)
22History of Political Thought

- · Social Contract
- · Adventures of Ideas
- · The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
- · Lord Acton
- · The Idea of Justice
- · You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties From Antidiscrmination Laws
- · The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America
- · The Idea of the University: A Reexamination
- · FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus
- · FIRE's Guide to Due Process and Fair Procedure on Campus
- · The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy
- · The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
- · A Propensity to Self-Subversion
- · On Historians
- · Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
- · Community and Power
- · From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
23History of Political Thought

- · L’invention de l’Europe
- · The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle
- · No Common Power: Understanding International Relations (Third Edition)
- · The Fall of the Ivory Tower
- · The Lexicon of Labor
- · On Liberty, Society, and Politics: The Essential Essays of William Graham Sumner (Robert C. Bannister, ed.)
- · Spheres of Justice
- · The Decline of the West
- · The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
- · Democracy in America (Heffner ed.)
- · Existentialism and the Modern Predicament
- · The Making of the Modern State: A Theoretical Evolution
- · Écrits politiques
- · Discipline and Punish
- · Darwin, Marx, Wagner
- · The Nature of Politics
24History of Political Thought

- · The Prospects of Liberalism
- · Totalitarianism
- · Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's Man and the State
- · The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s
- · The Retreat of Western Liberalism
- · Why Liberalism Failed
- · Liberty in the Modern State
- · The Populist Explosion
- · On Political Leadership (Summer 2016, Vol. 145, No. 3)
- · A Preface to Democratic Theory
- · The Spirit of Liberty (Irving Dillard, ed.)
- · The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- · The City of Man
- · Bronze Age Mindset
- · Dreamworlds of Race
- · Bleak Liberalism
- · Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought
- · The Liberal Theory of Justice
- · A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought
- · After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
- · On the Democratic Idea in America
- · Redeeming American Political Thought
- · Leo Strauss: Man of Peace
- · Political Thought
- · On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue (Timothy Fuller, ed.)
- · Social Justice Reconsidered
- · Adventures of Ideas
- · What Future for the State? (Spring 1995, Vol. 124, No. 2)
- · Conservative Realism: New Essays in Conservatism
- · Moral Imagination
- · The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education (Timothy Fuller, ed.)
- · At the Existentialist Café
- · The Changing of the Gods
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