Author: Alan Ryan

In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marxs writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and ...

In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 an...

In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Platos most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should ...

A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professo...

Augustines political philosophy is pregnant with arguments that racked not only Christian Europe but also much of the modern world. In On Augustine...

In Leviathan, Hobbes created the idea of a social contract and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of...

For his insistence on the amoral character of successful government, Machiavelli remains a contentious figure. Often reviled as a teacher of evil, ...

In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shap...

In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realp...

In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 an...

In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marxs writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and ...