"All books by Alan Ryan"
On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
Paperback, 2020
Finally in a one-volume paperback edition, On Politics is one of the most ambitious and hugely readable histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
E Book, 2014
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle.
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory
E Book, 2014
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli.
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
E Book, 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
E Book, 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 Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All
E Book, 2015
Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy.
On Augustine: The Two Cities
E Book, 2015
No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine.
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
Paperback, 1997
Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
First Edition, Paperback, 1997
This long-anticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz.