Political Theory

1. American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology

   Isaac Kramnick, Theodore J. Lowi

   This authoritative and comprehensive new anthology presents key works in American political thought from the colonial period to the twenty-first century.More

2. Common Sense and Other Writings

   Thomas Paine, J. M. Opal

   Thomas Paine often declared himself a citizen of the world. This Norton Critical Edition presents Paine and his writing within the transatlantic and global context of the revolutionary ideas and actions of his time.More

3. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   Second Edition

   Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More

4. Constitution Café: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution

   Christopher Phillips

   “A provocative extension of Jefferson’s original plan.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore

5. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

   Kwame Anthony Appiah

   “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellMore

6. An Essay on the Principle of Population

   Thomas Robert Malthus, Philip Appleman

   Second Edition

   While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world’s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.More

7. God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

   Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah

   College Edition

   A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion’s political influence across the globe.More

8. Leviathan

   Thomas Hobbes, Richard Flathman, David Johnston

   This Norton Critical Edition of arguably the greatest work of political theory written in the English language contains the bulk of Hobbes's treatise, including all chapters except those of interest primarily to professional historical scholars.More

9. The Marx-Engels Reader

   Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

   Second Edition

   This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.More

10. Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women

    John Stuart Mill, Alan Ryan

    This long-anticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz.More

11. The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli, Robert M. Adams

    Second Edition

    Robert M. Adams’s superb translation of Machiavelli’s best-known work is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.More

12. Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract

    Jean Jacques Rousseau, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Alan Ritter

    This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau’s political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract.More

13. The Selected Political Writings of John Locke

    John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund

    John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.More

14. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

    Saint Thomas Aquinas, Paul E. Sigmund

    St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology.More

15. Utopia

    Thomas More, George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams

    Third Edition

    Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world.More