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Third Edition
“A highly-readable translation and very inclusive selection of critical responses, making this the best edition of the text for an undergraduate readership.” —Christian M. Billing, University of Hull
“It is quite thorough for one semester, and bears up well for ongoing study. This is a very well-thought-out concept for such a seminal work. It more than meets the requirements for my upper-level undergraduate courses.” —Jeff Steele, Principia College
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The world’s population is now 7.4 billion people, placing ever greater demands on our natural resources. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity’s positive trends, Malthus’s pessimism is worth full reconsideration.More
Frederic L. Bender, Karl Marx
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
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
Thomas More, Robert M. Adams, George M. Logan
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
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
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“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellMore
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
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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
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Second Edition
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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