Alan Ryan

Alan Ryan, after decades at Princeton University, was warden of New College, University of Oxford, where he was a professor of political theory. He is the author of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, among other works.

Alan Ryan

Books by Alan Ryan

On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
Alan Ryan
Hardback, 2014
Tocqueville's gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume.
On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian
Alan Ryan
Hardback, 2014
Both a lucid introduction and a subtle demolition of the philosopher whose theories were treated as near-divine by those who followed him.
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory
Alan Ryan
Hardback, 2014
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli.
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
Alan Ryan
Hardback, 2014
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle.
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
Alan Ryan, Edwin Burrage Child
Paperback, 1997
On Augustine: The Two Cities
Alan Ryan
Paperback, 2015
No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine.
On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All
Alan Ryan
Paperback, 2015
Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy.
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory
Alan Ryan
Paperback, 2015
Based on On Politics, Alan Ryan's "monumental new history of political philosophy" (The Economist).
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
Alan Ryan
Paperback, 2015
Distilling his "magisterial" (The New Yorker) On Politics into twelve individual hardbacks.
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
Alan Ryan
Paperback, 2015
Tocqueville's gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume.