De La Démocratie en Amérique published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. It...
The Virginian is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister (1860-1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. It describes the life of a co...
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observatio...
Das 1895 uraufgeführte Lustspiel Leonce und Lena von Georg Büchner setzt sich an Hand der Liebesgeschichte der Königskinder Leonce und Lena sartirisch...
At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved for them l...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for...
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of th...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 different recordings of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of Septem...
Sara Burgerhart is een jong meisje dat correspondeert met haar vriendinnen, aanbidders en familie. Die mensen schrijven elkaar ook allemaal. Het boek...
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of The Road Builders, by Voltairine de Cleyre. This was the weekly poetry project for the week o...
Der Roman ist ein typischer Vertreter der Weimarer Klassik. Goethe greift ein gesellschaftliches Thema auf und verbindet es mit einem naturwissenschaf...
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is n...
John Henry Mackay's "Die Anarchisten" is a philosophical exploration of the contrasting principles of individualistic anarchism and communism. The boo...
Emerson's *Essays, Second Series* builds upon the themes explored in his first series, delving deeper into his philosophy of individualism, self-relia...
Tact is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th...
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of anarchism, a political philosophy that advocates for the abolition of all forms of government and the e...
In diesem Buch beleuchtet Paul Hensel Leben und Werk des einflussreichen Denkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Es bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Rou...
This book contains three essays by James Freeman Clarke, a Unitarian minister and abolitionist. The first essay, "Are Souls Immortal?", explores the q...
Walden is an extended meditation on simple living in natural surroundings. It is also a reflection on the meaning of life, the nature of society, and...
Published in 1913, *New Freedom* is a collection of speeches and essays by Woodrow Wilson, then President of the United States. Wilson, a leading figu...
