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Reveals the significance of Hume''s Essays for philosophical questions about human life and its individual and social progress.

This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.

A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

An engaging and accessible overview of the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, with updated material and additional online resources.

Isaiah Berlin remains one of the seminal political philosophers of the twentieth century.

A collection of newly-translated essays representing the finest post-war German scholarship on Nietzsche.

An engaging and accessible overview of the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, with updated material and additional online resources.

Examines the underground and overlooked actors and activities of liberal activism and liberal counter-cultures in the modern Arab world.

Liberalism is a crucially important topic today; this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to its history.

Explains Kant''s theory of conscience through examination of key texts, deploying that theory to engage in recent philosophical debates.

Explores many aspects of the behaviour, genetics, taxonomy and evolution of this genus and its adaptation to multiple environments.

Sovereignty, originally the figure of ''sovereign'', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.

Provides the first extended study of Calvin''s 1559 Institutio in conversation with critical theorists of religion, modernity, sovereignty, and political theology.

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China.

Studies the influential tradition of ''theological utilitarianism'' in the eighteenth century through the lens of William Paley''s life and thought.

Explores how, after Nietzsche, Dionysus and the ancient Greeks would never be the same again.

Provides a critical and controversial re-assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence by a leading intellectual historian.

A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.

An essential resource that defines and explains over 220 different concepts that are central to Heidegger''s philosophy.

Examines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.

Explains Kant''s theory of conscience through examination of key texts, deploying that theory to engage in recent philosophical debates.

Studying intellectual trends in Iran in a global historical context, this new intellectual history challenges many dominant paradigms in Iranian historiography.

Provides a critical and controversial re-assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence by a leading intellectual historian.

The first book to present the latest discoveries on the behaviour, ecology and evolutionary biology of lorises and pottos.

A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.

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

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

An engaging account of the research and key findings on Taï chimpanzees to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this project.

Studies the influential tradition of ''theological utilitarianism'' in the eighteenth century through the lens of William Paley''s life and thought.

The first book to present the latest discoveries on the behaviour, ecology and evolutionary biology of lorises and pottos.

An essential resource that defines and explains over 220 different concepts that are central to Heidegger''s philosophy.

Sovereignty, originally the figure of ''sovereign'', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.

Liberalism is a crucially important topic today; this book adds the important yet neglected Russian aspect to its history.

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements in modern European intellectual history.

Through a detailed reading of Karl Mannheim's early explorations in the sociology of knowledge, this book argues for Mannheim's relevance for contemporary social and political theory.

Examines the practical dilemmas, both moral and political, of peace time and war time as discussed by the Late Scholastics.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

Shows how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology.

Shows how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology.

Shows that the acquisition of political power and demand for rights by ascendant minority groups in Eastern Europe has precipitated a backlash of radical right mobilization.

The first comprehensive historical study of one of the most famous events in Japanese history: the Forty-seven Rōnin vendetta.

An engaging account of the research and key findings on Taï chimpanzees to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this project.

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

Introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law.

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

Explores how, after Nietzsche, Dionysus and the ancient Greeks would never be the same again.

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

The definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world.

Examines how urban citizenship gave many people a real stake in their own communities, even before the rise of modern democracy.