(Lenin), 921–22 Whigs, 529, 619, 629 Country, 513, 579 Whitefield, George, 595 White Guelphs, 265 “white man's burden,” 844, 847, 868 White Russians, 924–25 Why IAm Not a Communist (Russell), 928–29 Wilde, Oscar, 977 Wild Man of Borneo, ...
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.
With this “epic” (John Keane, Financial Times) tour de force, Ryan affirms his place as one of the most influential political philosophers of our time.
This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question:how should human beings best govern themselves?
On Politics: A New History of Political Philosophy
Henry Cabot Lodge read and redacted the manuscript — Cabot the palladium of correctness , the super - grammarian , the Harvard exquisite . How did all those ghastly snarls and bubbles of speech elude his cultured eye ?
Deals with the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves?