Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Kinder- und Jugendliteratur steht seit jeher in einem Spannungsverhältnis zwischen didaktisch-pädagogischen Zielen und literarischen Ansprüchen.

This book examines Nietzsche''s philosophical naturalism both historically and philosophically, establishing a link between his discussions of nature and normativity.

This book looks at Shakespeare through performance, capturing the dialogue between performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary concerns in the humanities.

This book offers an alternative analysis of Hegel''s famous ''end of history'', detailing an alternative reading of Hegel on history.

This book evaluates Rousseau''s arguments concerning why inequality exists in society and why it poses dangers to human well-being.

This volume provides a unique overview of the complete histories of Latin and Greek as second languages.

This book examines ancient Greek thinking about the probable, hypothetical, and counterfactual across a variety of disciplines (philosophy, science, politics, literature, art).

These essays examine the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences.

This is the first English-language book to examine Kant''s empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant''s philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.

This book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis.

This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle.

This study uses popular literature to offer a fresh account of Victorian manliness as it was transformed by imperial and colonial politics.

This book presents the most complete set of analytical, normative, and historical discussions of majority decision making to date.

This book examines a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and exegetes who share a passionate engagement with Maimonides.

A fresh and exciting study of Cicero''s philosophical activities and the enduring interest of his ethical and political thought.

This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present.

Panaïoti explores the complex and interesting relations between Nietzsche''s philosophical thought and the Buddhist philosophy which he admired and opposed.

This book provides an account of early modern political culture by emphasizing the centrality of humanist rhetoric in it.

The surprising idea of pleasure as communal provides a new way of understanding Wordsworth''s poetry and the Enlightenment''s critical legacy.

The essays in this volume focus on Rousseau''s genuine yet undervalued stature as a philosopher.

A novel, republican theory of the point of democracy, providing a model of the institutions that republican democracy would require.

This book explores the central importance Kant''s concept of autonomy for contemporary moral thought and modern philosophy.

This insightful and wide-ranging volume traces the genesis of international intellectual thought, connecting international and global history with intellectual history.

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.

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