"All books by Alan Ryan"
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
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
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
Hardback, 2014
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli.
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
Hardback, 2014
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle.
On Augustine: The Two Cities
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
Paperback, 2015
Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy.
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory
Paperback, 2015
Based on On Politics, Alan Ryan's "monumental new history of political philosophy" (The Economist).
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy
Paperback, 2015
Distilling his "magisterial" (The New Yorker) On Politics into twelve individual hardbacks.
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America
Paperback, 2015
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
Paperback, 2015
Both a lucid introduction and a subtle demolition of the philosopher whose theories were treated as near-divine by those who followed him.