Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Based on parts one and two of Ira Lapidus''s history, this book traces the transformation of pre-modern Islamic societies and their transfusion globally.

This groundbreaking account of the concept of a philosophical religion traces its history from antiquity to the Enlightenment.

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Examines the behavior of Athenians in the classical period, arguing that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens.

This book presents Reinhold Niebuhr, the prominent American theologian, in dialogue with seven individuals who each had a major influence on American life.

This book revisits and analyses the early French Revolution''s epic struggle against the Bourbon monarchy and its symbolic culture.

Janet McLean explores how British legal thought has imagined the state and the public sphere since 1832.

An extensive examination of the profound impact of Spinoza''s philosophy on the German Idealists.

This book situates Kierkegaard in the nineteenth-century debates which influenced him and discusses his relevance to contemporary Christian theology.

Pioneering collection of essays contributing to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.

This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.

An eclectic Marxist approach reveals the centrality of conflict and ideological struggle in the socio-political and cultural changes in Archaic Greece.

Offers a comprehensive account of British aesthetics from the early eighteenth century to the late twentieth century in Britain and beyond.

Offers a fluent and readable translation of the Eudemian Ethics, including explanatory notes.

This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant''s critical philosophy as a whole.

A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.

Moritz Föllmer offers a pioneering analysis of individuality and its importance to metropolitan society in twentieth-century Berlin.

This book offers a conceptual history of compromise demonstrating the connection between understandings of compromise and understandings of political representation.

Radical reappraisal of the political struggles of the late Roman Republic through a study of the conflicting uses of libertas.

A groundbreaking history of the roots of modern terrorism, ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East.

Daniel Chernilo offers an original reconstruction of the history of universalism in modern social thought from Hobbes to Habermas.

A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.

A reinterpretation of the secularization of American culture, focusing on the political views of natural and social scientists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A comprehensive account of the wide-ranging impact of Max Weber''s ideas on German and American intellectuals in the twentieth century.

In our era of mass electronic communications, political realities are produced by believable fictions that echo popular desires.

This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers'' writings about conquest, colonization and empire.

This book describes the radical shift in the study of economic science; where arguing with words was replaced by reasoning with mathematical models.

Challenges the notion of consistent unitary identities, arguing that we are multiple, changing selves, shaped by social contexts and processes.

This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.

This book investigates theories of linear perspective in classical antiquity.

Joseph Mali shows how modern thinkers were inspired by Vico to create their own theories of human life and history.

An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.

A new interpretation of the Essais, situating Montaigne''s project of self-study in the context of a broader commitment to liberty.

The fascinating story of The History of the Rus'', one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era.

This book identifies Jefferson as an American nationalist and describes his assessment of American character and democratic promise.

This book showcases eight judges that exemplify judicial greatness and looks at what role they play in law and society.

A rigorous and comprehensive commentary, showing how the Religion develops key themes in Kant''s mature philosophy.

This book presents a provocative new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche''s most important and most difficult work, Beyond Good and Evil.

This book explores the tensions raised by ideas of sacrifice in literature at a time of significant legal and theological change.

Explores the far-reaching impact of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides on modern historiography, political theory and international relations.

This book explores the relationship between freedom and slavery in the antebellum American South, studying authors who spoke for the Southwest''s educated classes.

Carol Pal reconstructs a forgotten network of female scholars and rewrites the intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century republic of letters.

The first history of one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern era.

An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.

This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.

Offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and the development of modern economics.

A revised translation of Condorcet''s view of progress across history and his prophetic writings on women, slavery, freedom and revolution.

This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.

Stanley Fish''s finest published work is brought together here with brand new material.