"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 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 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.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.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.