The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But the resurgence of interest in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. This book intends to see politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry. It argues from first principles to human nature to politics.

In this translated classic, Rousseau argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. He says that we can only be free under the law by voluntarily embracing that law as our own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate all our desires to the collective good, the general will.

A revised version of Peter Lasletta -- s acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as a classic text in the history of ideas.

Translated by Donald A. Cress.

Features the central principles of what is broadly known as political liberalism.

Argues that racially structured discrimination is the norm by using social contract theory.

Decades into our future, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful Neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called a young lady's illustrated primer, designed to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.

A collection of three of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most important political writings - The Social Contract ; The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) ; and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality) . There are essays by major scholars.

This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Britain by providing an account of life in high-risk, low-loyalty workplaces.

Offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition.

The Communist Manifesto presents a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Published on the eve of the 1848 revolutions, the manifesto is a condensed accpunt of the world-view of Marx and Engels, evolved over the previous few years.

Suitable for undergraduate courses in ethics, this book combines explanations of the main theories of ethics. It covers famine relief, homosexuality, and the treatment of animals.

A most comprehensive collection of John Locke's essays on politics and society.

Rousseau's Social Contract is one of the most famous books in political philosophy. This guide takes a thematic look at the text, discussing and examining ideas in the context of the time and their implications for future philosophical and political thought.

This two volume collection forms the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings.

In this highly readable book, Brian Skyrms investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics.