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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. Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings

   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

3. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

   Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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 Marx-Engels Reader

    Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

    Second Edition