No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era.
This original study explores the development of the postmodern turn in history, brought on by the social, political and cultural changes of the 1970s and 1980s.
This book provides a chronological record of the development of Chinese thoughts on public finance over its 4,000 years of history, ranging from the Xia Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day.
Cognitive science has posed some radical challenges to philosophy in recent years, particularly in the study of the cognitive activities and capacities of individuals.
The influential readings contained in this volume combine conceptual history - the history of words and languages - and global history, showing clearly how the two disciplines can benefit from a combined approach.
Angeregt durch die Lektüre von Descartes' Meditationen suchte Elisabeth von der Pfalz (1618-1680) 1643 den brieflichen Kontakt zu dem berühmten Philosophen.
This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space—a first in the field of Machiavellian studies.
Die Frage, wie wissenschaftliche Schöpfungen durch Prozesse der Gestaltung entstehen und wie sie in der Gestaltung der Welt, im Guten wie im Schlechten, zum Tragen kommen, ist für manche Disziplinen zentral, für andere kann sie eine sinnvolle Horizonterweiterung darstellen.
Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown.
Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the rH l ne Thibault is assistant professor in Political Science at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan since 2016.
The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe).
Das vorliegende Buch Der Mensch, das Spiel und der Zufall bietet eine historisch-systematische Analyse des Gewinnspiels und seines ewigen Reizes für uns Menschen.
What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit-words, meanings, signs-were jettisoned?
In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of Americas most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times.
This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.
Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century.
The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination.
This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.
The funny, insightful, and inspiring story of a 1960s campus radical turned corporate PR man who finds himself, along with his fellow baby boomers, in a place called Too Young to Retire and Too Old to HireJames S.
Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory analyses the constructions of the market in the thought of Adam Smith and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and discusses their relevance for contemporary political philosophy.
A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum.