The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt | 
The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt | 
The Revolt of the Masses
by Jose Ortega y Gasset | 
Natural Right and History
by Leo Strauss | 
On Violence
by Hannah Arendt |
Men in Dark Times
by Hannah Arendt | 
Two Treatises of Government
by John Locke | 
The Proper Study of Mankind
by Isaiah Berlin |
An Introduction to Political Philosophy
by Jonathan Wolff | 
Political Ideals
by Bertrand Russell | 
Second Treatise of Government
by John Locke | 
Persecution and the Art of Writing
by Leo Strauss | 
On Revolution
by Hannah Arendt | 
A Theory of Justice
by John Rawls | 
Unpopular Essays
by Bertrand Russell | 
Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes | 
The Promise of Politics
by Hannah Arendt | 
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau | 
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
by Isaiah Berlin | 
The Chomsky Reader
by Noam Chomsky |
Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill once more the vital essence of these concepts.