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Philosophy

1. 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

2. The Republic: A New Translation

   Plato, William C. Scott, Richard W. Sterling

   Authoritative and idiomatic, this translation has already established an impressive foothold in the college market.More

3. 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

4. Utopia

   Thomas More, Robert M. Adams

   Second Edition

   Robert M. Adams’s celebrated translation of Utopia has been meticulously revised for the Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition as have the accompanying annotations.More

5. The Praise of Folly and Other Writings

   Desiderius Erasmus, Robert M. Adams

   This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus’s writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English.More

6. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party.More

7. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

   St. 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

8. 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

9. The Essential Adam Smith

   Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone

10. The Birth of a New Physics

    I. Bernard Cohen

    Revised and Updated

    The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still.More

11. Aristotle's Poetics

    Aristotle, James Hutton

12. The Marx-Engels Reader

    Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

    Second Edition

13. Greek Science After Aristotle

    G. E. R. Lloyd

    Although there is no exact equivalent to our term "science" in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks.More

14. Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle

    G. E. R. Lloyd

    Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the first to attempt to explain natural phenomena consistently in naturalistic terms, and they initiated the practices of rational criticism of scientific theories.More

15. Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek

    Thorleif Boman

    "Builds on the premise that language and thought are inevitably and inextricably bound up with each other. . . . A classic study of the differences between Greek and Hebrew thought."—John E. Rexrine, Colgate UniversityMore