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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
An autobiography written in collaboration with the journalist Alex Haley from interviews held between 1963 and 1965, and published after Malcolm X's assassination in February 1965. It follows…
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The Concept of the Political
A short essay by the German jurist, first published in 1927 and expanded as a book in 1932. Schmitt seeks the criterion that marks out the political from…
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Consciencism
A philosophical treatise by Ghana's first president, written while he governed and revised after his overthrow in 1966; the revised edition is subtitled Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization.…
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The Fire Next Time
A short book made of two essays that first appeared in magazines in 1962. The first, “My Dungeon Shook”, is a letter to Baldwin's teenage nephew on the…
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
A study in historical sociology, first published as articles in 1904 and 1905 and revised in 1920, asking why modern rational capitalism arose first in the Protestant West.…
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Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism
A selection of essays and policy statements by Tanzania's first president, gathered from his longer volumes of speeches and published in 1968. Ujamaa is the Swahili word for…
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Politics as a Vocation
A lecture Weber gave in Munich in January 1919 to a student audience, in the turmoil after Germany's defeat and revolution. He defines the state as a human…
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African Religions and Philosophy
A survey of the religious thought of African peoples by a Kenyan theologian and Anglican priest, drawing on material from some three hundred ethnic groups. Mbiti opens by…
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Taking Rights Seriously
A collection of revised essays in legal and political philosophy. Its opening chapters attack legal positivism as defended by H. L. A. Hart. In 'The Model of Rules',…
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Bantu Philosophy
A short book by a Belgian Franciscan missionary who worked among the Baluba in the Belgian Congo. Written in Dutch, it first appeared in French in 1945 and…
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