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A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

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

This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean''s contribution to intellectual life.

Examines the history underlying the use of supermajority voting rules and offers a critique of their ability to remedy the defects of majority decision making.

This book provides an insightful overview of what has made pragmatism such an attractive and exciting prospect to thinkers of different persuasions.

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

An innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.

This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean''s contribution to intellectual life.

Examines the history underlying the use of supermajority voting rules and offers a critique of their ability to remedy the defects of majority decision making.

This book provides an insightful overview of what has made pragmatism such an attractive and exciting prospect to thinkers of different persuasions.

Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.

A new translation of Pico della Mirandola''s most famous work, with extensive notes and commentary.

This book explores constructivist and ecological approaches to rationality in economics.

The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750.

A revised 1988 version of Peter Laslett''s acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as a classic text in the history of ideas.

Luther''s On Secular Authority and Calvin''s On Civil Government, translated here, attempt to find a balance between Reformed Christians and the secular authorities.

The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries.

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century.

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on ''the sublime''.

Argues the just war tradition, rather than being a restraint on war, has expanded its scope, and criticises this trend.

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought.

The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America''s least-known, and most endangered, primates.

The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant''s lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.

Argues the just war tradition, rather than being a restraint on war, has expanded its scope, and criticises this trend.

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought.

The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America''s least-known, and most endangered, primates.

The only English translation of recently edited transcriptions of Kant''s lectures on anthropology, given between 1772 and 1789.

This book provides a robustly metaphysical, Hegelian account of the relation between appearance, thought and reality.

A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.

This book provides a robustly metaphysical, Hegelian account of the relation between appearance, thought and reality.

A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.

Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.

A new translation of Pico della Mirandola''s most famous work, with extensive notes and commentary.

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe.

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe.

Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

This book provides insights into the symposion''s importance in Greek culture by tracing the discursive power of its representations.

A new scholarly edition of Lincoln''s writings and speeches providing fresh insight into the man, the politician and political thinker.

This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes'' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe.

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe.

Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

This book provides insights into the symposion''s importance in Greek culture by tracing the discursive power of its representations.

This book examines how the experience of living with slavery shaped the way that the Roman elite thought about empire.

A new scholarly edition of Lincoln''s writings and speeches providing fresh insight into the man, the politician and political thinker.

This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes'' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

This book examines how the experience of living with slavery shaped the way that the Roman elite thought about empire.

The Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent, published in 1750.