- Published: 9 November 2012
- ISBN: 9781846147906
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 1152
On Politics
Formats & editions
- Published: 9 November 2012
- ISBN: 9781846147906
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 1152
In a work of astonishing scope and ambition, Alan Ryan, surveying the whole vast field, concisely charts the welter of conflicting positions and tracks the sometimes thrilling, sometimes catastrophic consequences of political thought
Stephen Greenblatt
Ryan demonstrates vivacity throughout, and a tenacious grasp of the human meaning of everything that has transpired in political speculation from the ancients on through the threshold of our own dark age. I commend particularly his terse eloquence, his capacious erudition, and the judicious intensity with which he somehow allows his whole being to inform his vast scope and deep concern of our human limitations
Harold Bloom