Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

A study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four key eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire.

An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the Victorian novel and visual art including galleries, museums and The Great Exhibition.

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

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This book rehabilitates Cicero''s reputation as an important political thinker by providing a fresh interpretation of his central works of political philosophy.

An important re-evaluation of radicalism, loyalism and republicanism in British political thought during the French Revolution.

This book shows how, in unearthing biblical cities, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its role in modern cities.

The first annotated edition of Leavis'' famous critique of C.

Leading scholars explore how the arguments of classical European thinkers relate to the ethics and politics of military intervention today.

This is a study of the complex debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914.

This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s.

Sheds new light on the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment.

This book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 systematic account of Rousseau''s significance in relation to Kant''s, Fichte''s and Hegel''s views on freedom, dependence and necessity.

The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (14041472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissancea fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt's mythologizing of Alberti as a Renaissance or Universal Man.

A philosophical study of the sublime from the height of its popularity to its renewed importance as a form of appreciating and valuing nature.

An exposition of the development of Nietzsche''s philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.

Anne DeWitt examines how Victorian novelists challenged the claims of men of science to align scientific practice with moral excellence.

This book explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire range of Greek and Roman thought.

The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today.

This book gives prominence for the first time to Mill''s abiding concern with Malthusianism and its impact on his arguments respecting liberty.

These translations provide a comprehensive view of Schopenhauer''s contribution to epistemology, theory of perception and philosophy of nature.

This book develops a Kierkegaard-inspired account of proper self-love which accommodates trust, hope, and forgiveness of self and others.

This book, written in an accessible style, is an exhaustive survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present.

Whether you are an entrepreneur (or aspiring entrepreneur), a business or nonprofit professional, or a business student, Holy Ambition: Thriving as a Catholic Woman at Work and at Home will help you navigate work and life with Christ at the center of it all, recognizing that our most ambitious calling is to be saints.

Unsere Gesellschaft spaltet sich: am einen Ende stehen Rechtspopulisten, am anderen "woke" Moralisten.

In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy.

Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place.

Die Endlichkeit menschlicher Existenz ist anthropologisch konstant, doch sind die Formen ihrer Wahrnehmung historisch und kulturell höchst variabel.

Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black from white and Native American.