Macat Library

This is a book for anyone who wants to understand exactly what we mean by ethics and mora...

Most likely written between 170 and 180 c.e., Meditations is a remarkable work, a unique ...

What might society look like if we were brave enough to emerge fully from the shadow of t...

On the Genealogy of Morality was written in 1887, when Friedrich Nietzsche was at the hei...

What is justice? How should an individual and a society behave justly? And how do they le...

It may sound like the set-up for a joke—“A playwright, a philosopher, and a g...

What we think of as the “mind” is little more than an illusion. That’s ...

In Philosophical Investigations, the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a ...

Some people think nationhood is as old as civilization itself. But for anthropologist, hi...

Politics is one of the first books ever to investigate the concept of political philosoph...

Reflections on the Revolution in France may read like an exercise in political theory. Bu...

Nineteenth century American politician John C. Calhoun was unashamedly pro-slavery. So it...

Iranian American writer and scholar Hamid Dabashi wrote Iran: A People Interrupted amid t...

In his 1997 work Theology of Discontent, Iranian American Hamid Dabashi suggests that the...

Democracy and Its Critics is a modern classic that integrates Robert A. Dahl’s demo...

Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City by American political theorist Rober...

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, published in two volumes in 1835 and ...

When American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the L...

First published in 1948, Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is an important Marxist...

One of the most influential works of political theory ever written, The Federalist Papers...

First published in 1651, Leviathan drove important discussions about where kings get thei...

John A. Hobson’s 1902 book Imperialism: A Study presents an original and controvers...

In his 1996 book The Clash Of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, American pol...

The emergence of China as a major player on the international stage is one of the most si...

The ideas set out by American international relations expert Robert O. Keohane in 1984&rs...

One of America’s foremost statesmen and diplomats, Henry Kissinger originally train...

First available in 1689, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government is considered one...

Though written around 1513, more than 500 years ago, Italian diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli...

One of the most significant works of political philosophy, John Stuart Mill’s On Li...

Originally published in 1861, John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism systematically deta...

Morgenthau’s classic text, published in 1948, not only introduced the concept of po...

Common Sense was published in 1776, at a time when America, then a colony of Great Britai...

British-born American political activist Thomas Paine wrote Rights of Man in 1791 in resp...

Social capital—the relationships between people that allow communities to function ...

Issues of human rights and freedoms always inflame passions, and John Rawls’s A The...

Geneva-born thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s famous work of political philosophy fro...

The modern world has been marked by a series of immense social revolutions that have tran...

One of the most important military strategy books ever published, Chinese general Sun Tzu...

Under the title Civil Disobedience, American author Henry David Thoreau’s essay was...

Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War is generally acknowledged as the f...

Kenneth Waltz’s Theory of International Politics created a “scientific revolu...

“Politics as a Vocation” examines what makes good political leaders and explo...

Gordon W. Allport’s 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice helped mold the ways in which...

In the 1960s, researchers into human memory began to understand memory as operating under...

First published in 1973, Albert Bandura’s Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis is...

Why do we want to justify our decisions, even if they appear to be irrational? The answer...

Born in 1921, Betty Friedan was an American psychology graduate, political activist, jour...

Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi’s 1990 work, A General Theory of Crime, a...

Published in 1994, The Bell Curve was a collaboration between the Harvard University expe...

A self-educated man, Eric Hoffer was most likely born in 1898. He wrote in his spare time...