Books from "Rethinking the Western Tradition"

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The volumes in this series seek to address the present debate over the Western tradition by reprinting key works of that tradition along with essays that evaluate each text from different perspectives.

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    David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society

    David Hume; Edited by Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls; With an Introduction by Andrew Valls; With Essays by Mark G. Spencer, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Frederick G. Whelan, and Peter Vanderschraaf and Andrew Valls

    10/23/2018, Paper
    $15.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300207149
  • An Essay on the Principle of Population

    The 1803 Edition

    Thomas Robert Malthus; Edited and with an Introduction by Shannon C. Stimson; With Essays by Niall O’Flaherty, Deborah Valenze, E. A. Wrigley, Kenneth Binmore, and Karen O’Brien

    02/13/2018, Paper
    $18.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300177411
  • Questions on Love and Charity

    Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23–46

    Thomas Aquinas; Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Robert Miner; With Essays by Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Dominic Doyle, Mark D. Jordan, Robert Miner, and Sheryl Overmyer

    04/26/2016, Paper
    $25.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300195415
  • Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

    Edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert; With an Introduction by Ian Shapiro; With Essays by J. C. D. Clark, Jane E. Calvert, and Eileen Hunt Botting

    11/25/2014, Paper
    $45.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300167450
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Mary Wollstonecraft; Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting; With Essays by Ruth Abbey, Eileen Hunt Botting, Norma Clarke, Madeline Cronin, and Virginia Sapiro

    08/26/2014, Paper
    $16.95 |
    ISBN: 9780300176476
  • On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

    Thomas Carlyle; Edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser

    08/20/2013, Paper
    $22.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300148602
  • The Communist Manifesto

    Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey C. Isaac; with essays by Steven Lukes, Stephen Eric Bronner, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Saskia Sassen

    06/26/2012, Paper
    $15.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300123029
  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln

    Edited and with an Introduction by Steven B. Smith; with essays by Danilo Petranovich, Ralph Lerner, Benjamin Kleinerman, Steven B. Smith

    05/29/2012, Paper
    $23.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300181234
  • Selected Writings

    Jeremy Bentham; Edited by Stephen G. Engelmann

    01/04/2011, Paper
    $25.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300112375
  • Leviathan

    Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

    Thomas Hobbes, Edited and with an Introduction by Ian Shapiro

    07/27/2010, Paper
    $20.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300118384
  • The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States

    George Santayana; Edited and with an Introduction by James Seaton; With Essays by Wilfred M. McClay, John Lachs, James Seaton, and Roger Kimball

    10/27/2009, Paper
    $30.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300116656
  • The Federalist Papers

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay; Edited and with an Introduction by Ian Shapiro

    04/28/2009, Paper
    $25.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300118902
  • Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History

    Immanuel Kant; Edited and with an Introduction by Pauline Kleingeld; Translated by David L. Colclasure; With Essays by Jeremy Waldron, Michael W. Doyle, and Allen W. Wood

    11/01/2006, Paper
    $23.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300110708
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France

    Edmund Burke; Edited by Frank M. Turner; With essays by Darrin M. McMahon, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Jack N. Rakove, and Alan Wolfe

    12/11/2003, Paper
    $18.00 | Out of Stock
    ISBN: 9780300099799
  • Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

    John Locke; Edited with an Introduction by Ian Shapiro; with essays by John Dunn, Ruth W. Grant, and Ian Shapiro

    11/10/2003, Paper
    $21.95 | Out of Stock
    ISBN: 9780300100181
  • On Liberty

    John Stuart Mill; Edited by David Bromwich and George Kateb; With essays by David Bromwich, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Owen Fiss, George Kateb, Richard A. Posner, and Jeremy Waldron

    01/11/2003, Paper
    $16.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300096101
  • Sesame and Lilies

    John Ruskin; Edited and with an Introduction by Deborah Epstein Nord; With essays by Elizabeth Helsinger, Seth Koven, and Jan Marsh

    08/11/2002, Paper
    $26.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300092608
  • The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Edited and with an Introduction by Susan Dunn; With essays by Gita May, Robert N. Bellah, David Bromwich, and Conor Cruise O’Brien

    02/08/2002, Paper
    $18.00 |
    ISBN: 9780300091410

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