 | Philosophical Writing: An Introduction by A. P. Martinich
Buy used from: £1.20 The only real guide of its kind focusing on the kind of writing required by philosophy.
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 | An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £12.00 A well written guide that covers a lot of classical and contemporary ground. Provides an interesting way to take in the subject as a whole.
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 | Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction by Will Kymlicka
Buy new: £21.16 / Used from: £14.38 A sound investment which introduces vital new directions and themes within the subject and many of the characters now leading the field.
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 | A Theory of Justice Rev (Paper) (Belknap) by J Rawls
Buy new: £14.58 / Used from: £14.19 The best edition of the modern classic. Rawls' style is not the most thrilling but you will be referred to this.
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 | Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
Buy new: £16.46 / Used from: £14.22 The lefty-baiting, infuriating classic. A great read for anyone that wants a challenge. Still the champion of much right wing economic thought.
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 | On Liberty (English Library) by John Stuart Mill
Buy used from: £0.01 The influential and rewarding classic from Mill. The starting point for thinking about liberal theory.
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 | Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by John Locke
Buy new: £7.08 / Used from: £2.17 Cambridge do the history of political philosophy well and this guide brings together Locke's two treatises.
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 | Marx: Early Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Karl Marx
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £2.94 Marx still deserves a place in the current political cannon and his early writings are one of the best reasons why.
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 | Leviathan (English Library) by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £0.28 The first great state of nature theorist and farther of modern political philosophy
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 | Basic Political Writings: "Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts", "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality", "Discourse on Political Economy", "On the Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £2.78 A fine collection of Rousseau's republican political philosophy
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 | Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford Paperbacks) by Isaiah Berlin
Buy used from: £17.95 There is as much to be learned in Berlin's accessible essays as the great systems of political thought.
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 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy used from: £0.39 an unrealistic oligarchical nightmare? Still, he thinks philosophers should be in charge so lets give it a chance.
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.80 Mad, bad Machiavelli reminds us that doing and thinking about politics are very different things
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 | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £2.94 This may turn out to be the most important of them all and that is a frightening thought.
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 | Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £4.95 Nobel prize winner for economics, although that is because there isn't one for political philosophy. Shows, for better or worse, philosophers can make a difference to urgent problems.
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