Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing ''democratic'' disorders associated with the stage.

This book examines how trust relates to the main political concepts - sovereignty, reason of state, and natural law - of seventeenth-century discourse.

This book explores the explosive social and political implications of Erasmus'' philological work on the Greek New Testament.

This study explores the rise and nature of modernist approaches to economics, sociology, international relations, administration, language, history and anthropology.

This is the first comprehensive intellectual history of political realism and international relations theory.

This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire.

This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.

An examination of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic political thought, and how it relates to other modern ideologies.

This book shows how absolute naturalism, deciphering nature without reference to God, emerged from the inheritance, dynamics and debates of orthodox culture.

A fundamental overhaul of modern Arab intellectual history, reassessing cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship.

A comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years.

Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history.

A fresh look at Austrian economists and the dynamic intellectual and political context in which they lived and worked.

This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.

This book explores shame as a politically charged idea that is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.

Radically reconceives Friedrich Nietzsche''s early life, offering an alternative approach and new insights into the early development of Nietzsche''s philosophy.

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

This book explores the controversial Anglo-American struggle over empire and economic globalization in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

A new account of the intellectual debates that created the German notion of the ''modern state'' under the Thirty Years War.

Against the twentieth-century ''Hobbesian anarchy'', Before Anarchy reconsiders the originality and reception of Hobbes''s interpersonal and international state of nature.

The first collaborative volume to explore popular sovereignty, a pivotal concept in the history of political thought.

Harrington draws on neglected sources in early twentieth-century German social thought to address core questions in current social science.

This book is the first detailed analysis and interpretation of Kant''s ethics as anti-realist and idealist.

This book examines racial and ethnic politics outside of the traditional context and questions the models used to understand mobility and government responsiveness.

This book provides the first political theory of post-Communist Europe, discussing liberty, rights, transitional justice, property, privatization, and rule of law.

This book traces Heidegger''s influence on a variety of political movements to fundamental ambiguities in his understanding of everydayness and nihilism.

This book examines the political thought of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, the most important thirteenth century German Rabbi.

This book traces the genealogy and historical memory of the twelfth-century ruler Prithviraj Chauhan, remembered as the ''last Hindu Emperor of India''.

A major study of how Chinese school textbooks shaped social, cultural, and political trends in the late imperial and Republican period.

This book argues that Nietzsche is a meritocratic thinker, not, as many have argued, an aristocrat or a democrat.

This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.

An original interpretation of the connection between idealism, history and nationalism in Fichte''s general philosophical, educational and moral project.

This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.

This work explores Hume''s Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.

A groundbreaking, revisionist account of the importance of the history of philosophy to intellectual change - scientific, philosophical and religious - in seventeenth-century England.

This innovative revisiting of South Asian intellectual history critically examines Nirad C.

A provocative new history of counterinsurgency with major implications for the history and theory of war, politics, and social science.

An ambitious analysis of the Roman literary obsession with retreat and closed spaces, in the context of expanding empire.

A collection of new essays examining the impact of Neo-Kantianism on a range of philosophical topics and fields of study.

A new investigation of the meaning that Italian Renaissance humanism had for an essential but neglected group: the humanists themselves.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars.

Examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged conceptions of identity at the turn of the twentieth century.

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

An introduction to and analytical reconstruction of Thomas Paine''s political philosophy and his account of human rights.

Explores how Vanity Fair transformed from its Puritan origins as an emblem of sin into a modern celebration of hedonism.

This volume explores how nine different religious and secular traditions deal with pluralism, dissent, and the challenges these issues pose.

A major new study of Jeremy Bentham''s engagement with contemporary French culture, from the Enlightenment through to the post-Revolutionary era.

Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forlì''s miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire.

This volume argues that ''inter-faith'' is a problematic term for Christian theology and advocates a Hegelian approach to religious diversity.