Locke: Political Writings (Hackett Classics)

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XVI unleashed a reign of terror against Protestants in France), is a classic defense of religious freedom. Yet many of Locke's other writings--not least the Constitutions of Carolina, which he helped draft--are almost defiantly anti-liberal in outlook.

This comprehensive collection brings together the main published works (excluding polemical attacks on other people's views) with the most important surviving evidence from among Locke’s papers relating to his political philosophy. David Wootton's wide-ranging and scholarly Introduction sets the writings in the context of their time, examines Locke's developing ideas and unorthodox Christianity, and analyzes his main arguments. The result is the first fully rounded picture of Locke’s political thought in his own words.

• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Hackett Classics)
• Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, ... Contract, The State of War (Hackett Classics)
• A Tale of Two Cities: (150th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics)
• Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Crime and Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Vintage Classics)
• On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
• Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 (Hackett Classics)
• The Prince (Hackett Classics)
• The Communist Manifesto
• Politics