...This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time. Mind ...complex, sophisticated and ingenious. Economist.

Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought.

Examines the creation and function of the imagined communities of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.

Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.

In this work, Habermas retraces the emergence and development of the bourgeois public sphere, focusing on Europe in the early modern period. He examines the writing of political theorists and the specific institutions and social forms in which the public sphere was realized.

Part of The Collected Works series, this book is the first volume of Karl Marx's famous text on the economies of capitalism, Capital . The translation is based on the Moore and Aveling translation of 1887, but has been revised and supplemented with extensive notes.

Contains material about the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann.

Revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way.

The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society - free from corruption and cronyism - which remains inspiring today.

This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation and people - and links this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society.

This volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's Prison Nobebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of The Modern Prince .

This is the first complete, scholarly English-language edition of The Spirit of the Laws since 1750. It is one of the central texts in the history of 18th-century thought and this annotated edition focuses attention on Montesquieu's use of sources and his text as a whole.

Providing a selection of Marx's writings, this book includes extracts from the whole range of Marx's most important pieces. It also includes a bibliography and editorial commentary on each document and provides the background and context of Marx's writing in each period. It is for those wishing for an overview of Marx's political philosophy.

Presents the debate about the future of the world in the post-Cold War era. This book expands on the author's work to address the fundamental and far-reaching themes of the new millennium.

This text traces the genealogy of the present crisis in left-wing thought and reexamines the idea of hegemony to posit a claim for the new possibilites of a radical democracy.

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this study by Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. In print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture is of society sinking to its lowest common denominator and drifting toward chaos.

Presents a work of modern political theory. This book shows how thinkers who have grappled with the immense possibilities and dangers of modern power, are themselves a major theoretical statement. It shows that great theorists have been driven to shape politics to some vision of the good that lies outside the existing political order.

Challenges the philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. This book critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. It also defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model.

This translation contains Agamben's recent thinking on some concrete, ethical and political conclusions concerning the state of society today and the place of the individual within it. The work draws both on classical traditions and the philosophy of Foucault and Schmitt.

This work is a statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. It argues that people are born with a set of natural rights and that any society that violates those rights is flawed and should be changed.