Mark Lilla

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1. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Personal Impressions, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

2. Leo Strauss

   Author of Natural Right and History, Thoughts on Machiavelli, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss

3. Hannah Arendt

   Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution

4. Mark Lilla

   Author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics, The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin

5. Bernard Williams

   Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument

6. Carl Schmitt

   Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

7. John Rawls

   Author of Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, The Law of Peoples

8. Charles Taylor

   Author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, A Secular Age

9. Peter Gay

   Author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

10. Pierre Manent

    Author of An Intellectual History of Liberalism, The City of Man

11. Quentin Skinner

    Author of The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 1: The Renaissance, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, Visions of Politics (Volume 1)

12. Michael J. Sandel

    Author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

13. Karl Löwith

    Author of Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Phoenix Books), From Hegel to Nietzsche

14. Gertrude Himmelfarb

    Author of The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics

15. J. G. A. Pocock

    Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 2: Narratives of Civil Government (Volume 2)

16. Louis Menand

    Author of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

17. Thomas Nagel

    Author of Mortal Questions, Equality and Partiality

18. Sheldon S. Wolin

    Author of Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought

19. Ludwig Feuerbach

    Author of The Essence of Christianity

20. Stephen Edelston Toulmin

    Author of Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity