Politische Theorien

Oliver Cromwell und das Commonwealth

Republikanismus, Theokratie, Militärdiktatur – das sind häufige Assoziationen zur Herrschaft Oliver Cromwells während des Interregnums in der Folge der Englischen Revolution (1642-1660). Dabe...

Democracy in America

Alexis de Toqueville

The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Also, Tocqueville spec...

The Collected Works

Thomas More

This edition includes: Utopia (1516) The History of King Richard the Third (c. 1513–1518) The Four Last Things (c. 1522) Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534) The Sadness of Christ ...

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

"Manifesto of the Communist Party" is an 1848 political document by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in Lon...

The Collected Works

Thomas Paine

This edition includes: Common Sense The American Crisis The Rights of Man The Age of Reason The Republican Proclamation To the Authors of "Le Républicain" To the Abbé Sièyes To t...

Anarchy

Errico Malatesta

This book is one of Errico Malatesta's most influential writings. It sets forth the basic principles of anarchism. Besides expressing the basics of Anarchism he also gave arguments against Soc...

The Spirit of the Laws

Charles de Secondat / Baron de Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law, published in 1748 by Montesquieu. Originally published anonymously, partly because Montes...

The American Crisis

Thomas Paine

The American Crisis is a pamphlet series by the Enlightenment philosopher Thomas Paine, written during the American Revolution. Paine wrote these pamphlets in order to motivate people in the Colon...

The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" is born from his need to defend social mutiny and it posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the nat...

On the Origin of Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progre...

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence

L. Carroll Judson

This collection presents you with the biographies of fifty-eight individuals, some of them famous names, some forgotten men of the past, but all crucial in the accomplishment of a single object, t...

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens

Georg Jellinek

Georg Jellinek argues in his essay The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen for a universal theory of rights, as opposed to the culturally and nationally specific arguments then in vog...

The Art of War

Niccolò Machiavelli

DigiCat presents 2 Political Masterpieces by Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince & The Art of War. The Prince: Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine philosopher Nicco...

Bonner Dekadenschrift 1795

Geradezu rührend mutet den heutigen Leser oder die Leserin der Enthusiasmus an, mit dem Johann Baptist Geich seine Bonner Mitbürger für die republikanische Verfassung begeistern will. Unermeßl...

Negative und positive Freiheit nach Isaiah Berlin

Niels Köneke

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,7, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit geht es um Isaiah ...

Homo Emotionalis

Timm Beichelt

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context. For this purpose, three different types of emotions are elaborated, which in...

Die Diktatur des Proletariats

Der Begriff der "Diktatur des Proletariats" zählt zu den schillerndsten und wirkmächtigsten Begriffen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die im Band versammelten Autorinnen und Autoren spüren deshal...

Die Schwäche der liberalen Demokratie und die Rolle der Identität

Jannick Skupin

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 2,3, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Politisches Institut), Veranstaltu...

Karl Marx's Realist Critique of Capitalism

Paul Raekstad

<p>This book offers the first realist reconstruction of Marx’s critique of capitalism. Reading Marx through a realist lens enables us to make sense of the connections between (1) Marx’s ...

Marx, Spinoza and Darwin

Mauricio Vieira Martins

<p><i>Marx, Spinoza and Darwin</i>&nbsp;presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors—certainly with differences among themselves—consolidated a fi...