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This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.

An insight into the climate of political thought surrounding the most powerful empire in history, first published in 2007.

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge.

This study argues that nineteenth-century English New Liberalism was considerably more indebted to classical English utilitarianism than the received view holds.

This 2007 book challenges orthodox readings of Greek history centred on the polis and proposes a broader approach.

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

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A comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

This book was the first full account of the famous debate between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall.

A comprehensive treatment of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi.

Darien Shanske analyzes the difficult language and structure of Thucydides'' History.

This 2005 book traces the history of economic thought from its prehistory to the present day.

An overview of Bernard Williams'' influential contribution to moral philosophy.

This volume of essays focuses on the largely neglected aspect of royalism during the English Civil Wars.

This text is the third volume in a new translation of Proclus'' Commentary on Plato''s Timaeus.

A study of three centuries of radical ideas and activity in English political and social history.

Remastering Morals provides a book-length scholarly comparison of the ethics of Aristotle and Confucius.

An innovative and important study of Marx''s early writings.

An illuminating study of the political thought of ninth-century West Saxon king, Alfred the Great.

This book explains why language caused unease to writers such as Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Pascal.

In Democracy and Legal Change, Melissa Schwartzberg argues that modifying law is a fundamental and attractive democratic activity.

A translation of Spinoza''s Theological-Political Treatise (1670), with a substantial historical and philosophical introduction of this important philosophical work.

A unique, multi-thematic case study of the entire monkey community of the Taï forest.

In this study, Sayre discusses key, but previously obscure, passages in the Statesman.

This book, first published in 2006, presents an English translation of one of the most important and influential of Kierkegaard''s works.

In this book, Julian Young argues that Nietzsche''s early religious communitarianism persists through all his published works.

This book is a comprehensive study of Conventionalism, providing a fresh perspective on twentieth-century philosophy.

This volume offers a translation of Kant''s pioneering contribution to the discipline of anthropology.

An edition of Hume''s influential work on religion, including several of his shorter texts.

This 2007 volume sheds new light on the practice of translation as part of cultural history.

Kristen Deede Johnson explores how we can live together in the midst of our differences.

In this text Stacey traces the formative impact of Seneca''s political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government.

An exploration of imagination as a creative power in Kant''s aesthetics and his philosophical enterprise.

This is the first volume in this translation of Proclus'' Commentary on Plato''s Timaeus.

An edition of Hume''s profoundly influential work together with some of his other writings.

This volume celebrates the contribution of the Folger Institute to British studies from 1500 to 1800.

A new account of Augustine''s political thought and ethics in relation to his theology.

The political theory of Machiavelli, his characteristic preoccupations and how those came to be formed.

The first detailed study of Kant''s method of ''transcendental reflection'' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason.

Moses Hess is a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought.

A major contribution to our understanding of seventeenth-century England, from one of its foremost historians.

A series of biographical reflections on those who influenced and were influenced by Gandhi.

Examines why Plato wrote the Parmenides and what role it played in his philosophical development.

A fresh look at the impact of Quentin Skinner''s The Foundations of Modern Political Thought.

A critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language.

This groundbreaking book, first published in 2006, is essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature.

This 2006 volume provides the broadest and deepest introduction to Kant currently available.

This collection of essays provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher.

This book sets forth a philosophy of constitutional design.

A major study of the origins of Evangelicalism from Central Europe to the American colonies.