Arohi Publications
| No. | Book Title | Author | Year | Famous Quotes | Crux of the Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Theory of Justice | John Rawls | 1971 | 1. “Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.” 2. “Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice.” 3. “Inequalities are acceptable only if they benefit the least advantaged.” | Introduces “justice as fairness” via the original position and veil of ignorance; advocates equal liberty, fair opportunity, and the difference principle. |
| 2 | Anarchy, State, and Utopia | Robert Nozick | 1974 | 1. “Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them.” 2. “Taxation of earnings is on par with forced labor.” 3. “A minimal state is justified; any state more extensive violates rights.” | Defends libertarian minimal state protecting individual rights; rejects redistributive justice; proposes entitlement theory. |
| 3 | Political Liberalism | John Rawls | 1993 | 1. “Reasonable pluralism is the inevitable outcome of free institutions.” 2. “We seek an overlapping consensus among doctrines.” 3. “Political not metaphysical justification of liberal values.” | Refines Rawls’s theory to accommodate pluralism in democratic societies; stresses public reason and overlapping consensus. |
| 4 | Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | 1999 | 1. “Development is the expansion of freedom.” 2. “Poverty is the deprivation of basic capabilities.” 3. “Freedom is both the means and the end of development.” | Introduces the capability approach; argues development is about enhancing freedoms and removing capability deprivation. |
| 5 | The End of History and the Last Man | Francis Fukuyama | 1992 | 1. “Liberal democracy is the final form of human government.” 2. “We are at the end of mankind’s ideological evolution.” 3. “History ends where modern liberal democracy prevails.” | Claims liberal democracy is the endpoint of ideological evolution, marking the triumph of Western liberalism after the Cold War. |
| 6 | The Clash of Civilizations | Samuel Huntington | 1996 | 1. “The next world war will be a war between civilizations.” 2. “Cultural identity will be the primary source of conflict.” 3. “The West vs. the Rest will dominate global politics.” | Argues post-Cold War conflicts arise from cultural and civilizational differences, especially between West and others. |
| 7 | Multicultural Citizenship | Will Kymlicka | 1995 | 1. “Freedom involves making choices among various options.” 2. “Group-differentiated rights are consistent with liberalism.” 3. “Minority cultures need support to flourish equally.” | Advocates group-differentiated rights within liberal democracies; stresses recognition and accommodation of minorities. |
| 8 | The Human Condition | Hannah Arendt | 1958 | 1. “The most radical revolutionary becomes a conservative the day after the revolution.” 2. “Labor, work, and action are three fundamental human activities.” 3. “Political life is the highest form of human activity.” | Explores human activity via labor, work, and action; emphasizes political engagement as core to human freedom. |
| 9 | Discipline and Punish | Michel Foucault | 1975 | 1. “Power is everywhere; it comes from everywhere.” 2. “Where there is power, there is resistance.” 3. “Discipline creates docile bodies.” | Analyzes modern institutions’ power through surveillance, normalization, and discipline shaping individuals and society. |
| 10 | Gender Trouble | Judith Butler | 1990 | 1. “Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.” 2. “One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one.” 3. “Identity is performatively constituted.” | Introduces gender as a social construct and performance; challenges fixed identities in gender theory. |
| 11 | The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | 1949 | 1. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” 2. “She is the Other.” 3. “Representation of the world is the work of men.” | Explores historical oppression of women and female identity construction in a patriarchal society. |
| 12 | Deliberative Democracy and Beyond | John Dryzek | 2000 | 1. “Democracy is legitimate when justified through public reasoning.” 2. “Deliberation allows pluralism without relativism.” 3. “Dialogical democracy goes beyond consensus.” | Advocates democracy based on open, inclusive dialogue and deliberation rather than mere majority rule. |
| 13 | Democracy and Its Critics | Robert A. Dahl | 1989 | 1. “Democracy must be judged not only by its ideals but also by its practice.” 2. “Polyarchy is the best achievable form of democracy.” 3. “Effective participation and voting equality are necessary criteria.” | Examines democracy’s principles and practices; introduces polyarchy as realistic democratic model. |
| 14 | Liberalism and the Limits of Justice | Michael Sandel | 1982 | 1. “The self is encumbered, situated in social roles.” 2. “Rawls assumes an unencumbered self.” 3. “Justice is not neutral between conceptions of the good life.” | Challenges Rawlsian liberalism; argues for embedded self and emphasizes community and shared moral understandings. |
| 15 | The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere | Jürgen Habermas | 1962 | 1. “Public opinion forms only in a public constituted as such.” 2. “The bourgeois public sphere is the domain of rational debate.” 3. “Modern media has eroded communicative rationality.” | Traces development and decline of the public sphere; highlights role of rational-critical debate in democracy. |
| 16 | Ecologism: An Introduction | Brian Doherty | 2005 | 1. “Ecological problems require political solutions.” 2. “Deep ecology challenges anthropocentrism.” 3. “Sustainability is a moral and political question.” | Surveys environmental political ideologies; argues for ecological justice, sustainability, and political responses. |
| 17 | Capitalism and Freedom | Milton Friedman | 1962 | 1. “Economic freedom is a prerequisite for political freedom.” 2. “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.” 3. “Government’s role should be limited.” | Advocates free-market capitalism and limited government; links economic freedom to democratic stability. |
| 18 | The Origins of Totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | 1951 | 1. “Totalitarianism appeals to emotional needs of isolated people.” 2. “Ideology and terror are tools of totalitarian rule.” 3. “Modern loneliness fuels mass movements.” | Investigates roots of totalitarian regimes; shows how ideology and terror dominate individuals and societies. |
| 19 | Modernity and the Holocaust | Zygmunt Bauman | 1989 | 1. “The Holocaust was born in our rational modern society.” 2. “Modernity made genocide thinkable and doable.” 3. “Bureaucracy and distance allowed moral blindness.” | Explores how rational modern systems enabled the Holocaust; links genocide with bureaucracy and efficiency. |
| 20 | The Idea of Justice | Amartya Sen | 2009 | 1. “What actual lives people lead matters deeply.” 2. “We need comparative justice, not transcendental institutions.” 3. “Justice is about removing manifest injustices.” | Proposes practical, comparative justice focusing on real-world outcomes over ideal theory. |
