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Published in 1651, Leviathan examines where kings get their authority to rule and what they must, in turn, do for their people. Hobbes argues that kings do not... Læs mere
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How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault... Læs mere
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Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a series of lessons in the applied art of problem solving. Sun (544 BC-496 BC), an experienced general from the Warring States period... Læs mere
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Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (1944) analyzes the ways in which excessive government planning can erode democracy. The work draws influential... Læs mere
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Gordon W. Allport’s 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice not only helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate prejudice – it also... Læs mere
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David Hume’s 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology – the... Læs mere
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In The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm focuses on the tumultuous late 18th and early 19th centuries. He argues that the “dual revolutions”... Læs mere
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A critical analysis of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in which economist Thomas Piketty provides detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is distributed in the ways it is.
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In one of the most frequently cited social science publications of the last half-century, Robert D. Putnam draws heavily on the critical thinking skill of... Læs mere
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No philosopher could be a better example of creative thinking in action than Friedrich Nietzsche: a German iconoclast who systematically... Læs mere
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One of the most influential books on economics ever written, Malthus' work remains one of the most controversial, too.... Læs mere
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 After Virtue was a ground-breaking contribution to modern moral philosophy. Dissatisfied with the major trends in the moral philosophy of his time, MacIntyre argued that modern moral discourse had no real rational basis.