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
Christopher Phillips
“A provocative extension of Jefferson’s original plan.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore
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
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
Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch
Third Edition
Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More
Max Weber, Richard Swedberg
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More
Lynn Hunt
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore
Henry D. Thoreau, William Rossi
Third Edition
This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.More
Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Henry Reeves
The Norton Critical Edition presents Tocqueville’s classic text in the Henry Reeves translation.More
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
Richard Sennett
The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.More
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
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
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
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