Recognized as the Book of the Year at the Irish CAP Awards 2023, this work stands out for its compelling narrative and rich character development. It explores profound themes that resonate with readers, offering a unique perspective on contemporary issues. The author’s masterful storytelling weaves together emotion and insight, making it a must-read for anyone seeking a thought-provoking literary experience.
First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill's achievements, providing an introductory guide to his most important and best known writings including Autobiography, A System of Logic, Utilitarianism, Liberty, and The Subjugation of Women. In their treatment of his works, the author seeks to emphasise Mill's approach to those issues -- education, the conflict between social order and individual freedom, the unresolved state of the social sciences, rights and duties of citizens in a democratic state -- which remain most alive to us today. At the same time Mill is seen as part of his own age, responding to the anxieties that beset his contemporaries. This book will be of interest to students of politics and philosophy.
Set against the backdrop of a picturesque Irish village, an American writer named Jack Quinlan uncovers unsettling secrets while researching the Irish Famine. The locals' strange behavior and the mysterious priest, Father Henning, raise questions that lead Jack into a chilling exploration of the village's dark history. As he witnesses a bizarre cemetery ritual, he realizes that the haunting ghosts of the past demand attention—and possibly retribution—revealing a connection between history and the present that is both terrifying and compelling.
The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition--and worried about its future.This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.-- "Choice"
Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy.
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle.
Tocqueville's gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume.
Based on On Politics, Alan Ryan's monumental new history of political philosophy (The Economist).
Introduces the philosophy of Karl Marx and provides a framework for the theories of class struggle, alienation, and revolution that ruled over the lives of millions of Communist citizens and sparked the attention of intellectuals
Deals with the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves?
