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Crisis of Authority analyzes the activities that draw together authority, trust and truthfulness in contemporary theory and politics.

This book examines how enlightened Scottish social theorists c.

The first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life in the British Romantic period.

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.

An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced.

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.

An interdisciplinary study of the emergence of a psychology of the ''unconscious'' in the Romantic period, ninety years before Freud.

A systematic and accessible presentation of the ideas of one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century.

Constructing a functional system of magic that helps readers suspend disbelief is a crucial part of worldbuilding in the fantasy genres.

The history of American universities is punctuated by shifts in the terms on which the mission of higher education is defined and debated.

This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies.

Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity.

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.

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A.

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Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest.

In the eighteenth century 'virtue' was a word to conjure with.

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).

Ein "artistisches Ganzes"?

What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit-words, meanings, signs-were jettisoned?

'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters.

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.

Andre Siegfried (1875-1959) was a leading figure in French academic and cultural life for over five decades.

The relation between Hegel and Marx is among the most interpreted in the history of philosophy.

This book decodes the Meteorologica and shows how it provides the key to understanding Aristotle''s natural philosophy.

An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.

Explores the history of the idea of constituent power over five key events, from the French Revolution to the present.

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.

Complete guide to genetics, evolution, and variation in human tooth crown and root morphology in modern and fossil Homo sapiens.

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.

Collects the basic theories of law propounded by the great philosophers.

Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive.

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.