. . . The entire Introduction is crisply written, and the authors' erudition shines throughout, without a trace of pedantry. . . . this is an excellent book that deservedly should find wide circulation for many years to come.

Nozick develops new views on philosophy’s central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective.

Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work.

Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1888.

In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult.

The book was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in June 1902.

wide criticism both from Western and Eastern scholars.

In addition to analysis by Leo Strauss and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt’s work into contemporary context, this expanded edition also includes a translation of Schmitt’s 1929 lecture “The Age of Neutralizations and ...

A book to raise the spirits and warm the heart. Includes the famous Kindergarten essay that was read on the floor of the U.S. Senate.From the Hardcover edition.

"Translated with an uncanny sense for the overall point of Augustine's doctrine. In short, a very good translation. The Introduction is admirably clear." --Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana University