Philosophie / Politique

Anarchism and Other Essays

de Emma Goldman

Anarchism & Other Essays, published in 1911, is the work of feminist anarchist Emma Goldman. Anarchism is a political philosophy which believes that government, or a governing body is unnecessary. Goldman discusses...

The Kingdom of God is Within You

de Leo Tolstoy

Published in 1884, 'The kingdom of God is within you' is perhaps Tolstoy's most significant work of non-fiction. Due to the Russian censors, it was first published in Germany, but its dominant idea of non-violence...

Utopia

de Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 in Latin. His Utopia is a fictional island, whose society, religion and politics he explores. Critics do not believe that the island depicted More's idea of the perfect society,...

4 Books by Niccolo Machiavelli

de Niccolo Machiavelli

4 Books by Niccolo Machiavelli

THE ART OF WAR

NICHOLAS MACHIAVEL'S PRINCE

DISCOURSES ON THE FIRST DECADE OF

HISTORY OF FLORENCE AND OF THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY

The Republic

de Plato

The question The Republic sets out to define is "What is justice?" Given the difficulty of this task, Socrates and his interlocutors are led into a discussion of justice in the city, which Socrates suggests...

The American Crisis

de Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine wrote the American Crisis in an effort to justify the American Revolution and to bolster the moral of the Continental Army.

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine...

The Rights of Man

de Thomas Paine

In The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine defends the representational form of government. He posits that all men are born with God-given rights that cannot be taken from them by any government. Paine's position on...

The Athenian Constitution

de Aristotle

Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students....

Reflections on the Revolution in France

de Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative...

The Politics

de Aristotle

Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some...

The Prince

de Niccolo Machiavelli & Michael Ennis

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.  Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...

Deep In the Heart of Occupy Austin

de Jim Gober

Jim Gober writes of the birth and untimely death of the Occupy Austin movement in his book that takes you on a journey to the depths and ultimate human triumph of the Occupy Austin movement. Experience the uniqueness...

Humanity a New Begining

de F.S. Mesa Guillen

""This book explores why democracy is failing us, and how we can change it. This book provides a new and revolutionary way of creating a more united world. This book will not sit well with the very wealthy,...